<p>I've only experienced east coast weather all my life, so I have no idea what to expect. Is it warm year-round? Does it snow at all? How cold do the winters get, and will I need some hardcore jackets for the wintertime?</p>
<p>where in the east coast have you lived?</p>
<p>Not cold at all. No snow...ever! and windbreaker/sweatshirt will do</p>
<p>...snow?</p>
<p>This is California. We like our snow isolated to resorts, thank you very much.</p>
<p>Last year, it got pretty cold for a couple weeks around late November/early December at nighttime (it dipped into the 30s.) Nothing that a couple layers can't solve. Aside from that, the weather is pretty mellow. Sometimes it'll get hot, sometimes it'll get cold, but it's generally pretty mild.</p>
<p>Once you experience California weather, you'll never want to leave.</p>
<p>These people commenting here are insane: Berkeley is not cold by East Coast standards. It just gets cold at times you would not, coming from the East Coast, expect. A friend coming from Brooklyn to start as a Freshman arrived in late August with only shorts and t-shirts and froze her a*s off because she didn't expect the Bay Area's summer cold. Mark Twain: "The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco." It's not THAT cold in Berkeley, but Berkeley is NOT LA. Be forewarned. On the other hand, Spring and Fall can be really, really nice. Overall, it's a mild climate with the occasional dips into the 30s/40s as someone said during the winter. As with economics, expectations and baselines are key. Coming from the heat of the East Coast in August, for instance, Berkeley can shock, though it's not ever all that cold in absolute terms.</p>
<p>haha it's interesting when you get to berkeley because you hear a lot of kids complaining...oh no it's so cold, it's 50 degrees...
you're from NY right? this weather should be no problem. i absolutely love the weather there. you won't need any hardcore jackets. i just brought a light coat and i was fine.</p>
<p>Berkeley is not cold. It's cu-hold! (internet culture reference...)</p>
<p><3 Berkeley weather.</p>
<p>so it's been established in this thread that it doesn't get too cold at berkeley, but whoa when i look at the climate data on that wikipedia link, i see that it doesn't get even really HOT there either in the summer as i expected (ave high of 70 when i thought it'd be up in the high 80's/low 90's)</p>
<p>anyways i'm loving what i'm hearing. it sounds like it's moderate all year long, which i love because i'm not a fan of really hot or really cold...i like it justt right</p>
<p>exactly. nj weather is terrible right now. way too hot and feels like 150% humidity. in the winter, it gets to like 10 degrees...way too cold for anything. berkeley weather has a nice mild range and isn't really humid at all.</p>
<p>One reason the Bay Area rates highly in certain quality of life parameters used by real estate folks is that it has little variability around a very pleasant temperature mean. ...But don't go to Berkeley in August wearing just your speedo.</p>
<p>I guess us folks from L.A. should prob run out and buy our first umbrella. . . !</p>
<p>Nothing wrong with walking in the rain. Though recently there've been some odd hail-bursts, so maybe you want it as a shield...</p>
<p>The weather up here is fantastic. While the rest of California and the nation is complaining about hot temps, we're complaining about the morning chill then basking in the 75 degree afternoon sunshine. </p>
<p>I guess there's a reason it's gotten so expensive to live up here!</p>
<p>"While the rest of California and the nation is complaining about hot temps, we're complaining about the morning chill then basking in the 75 degree afternoon sunshine."</p>
<p>Agreed! It's awesome.</p>
<p>Remember: The Naked Guy was from Berkeley. That kind of stuff wasn't happening at Cornell that year. I'll guarantee it.</p>
<p>not cold at all last year. few rainy days.</p>
<p>i'm from socal and I liked it. I thought the constant breeze got to be a bit annoying though.</p>