re: OT weather experts. What kind of winter are we expected to have in LA this year?

Just get used to the warm winters! It will only get hotter. This summer hasnt been too bad though, mainly because it rains nearly every day. Today is 3 degrees hotter than forecast, due to no rain of course.

It will get dark a lot earlier. If you look closely you can see it already happening.

Something like '09/10 might be in the cards, some of the larger scale patterns are shifting towards that kind of look.