Characteristics of Four Seasons Climate in Los Angeles

City of angels is the second largest city in the United States after new york. Located in the south of California on the west coast of the United States, near the coasts of San Pedro Bay and Santa Monica Bay on the east side of the Pacific Ocean, and backed by San Gabriel Mountain, it covers an area of 1.200 square kilometers. The metropolitan area includes Los Angeles County, part of Orange County and Ventura County, and more than 80 towns such as Beverly Hills, Pasadena and Long Beach, with a total area of 65,438+00,567 square kilometers. The city is located in an open basin surrounded by mountains on three sides and facing the sea on one side. Except for some hills, the ground is flat, with an average elevation of 84 meters, and the highest point, Elsie Peak, is 1549 meters. The year is sunny, dry and rainy, and the climate is mild and pleasant, with an average temperature of about 12 degrees, 10/3.7 degrees in October and 23.4 degrees in July. The annual precipitation is only 357mm, mainly winter rain.

19 At the end of the 20th century, with the discovery of oil, Los Angeles began to rise and quickly developed into the largest city in the western United States. After World War II, with the rise of modern industry, the prosperity of commerce, finance and tourism, the surge of immigrants and the continuous expansion of urban areas, Los Angeles has become a megacity in the United States. Now Los Angeles has become the largest petrochemical, marine, aerospace and electronic industrial base in the United States. It is one of the major science and technology centers in the United States, with the largest number of scientists and engineers in the United States and the title of "City of Science and Technology", where the famous Silicon Valley is located. In recent years, the financial industry and commerce in Los Angeles have also developed rapidly. Hundreds of banks have set up offices in Los Angeles, including many famous international consortia, such as Lockheed, Northrop and Rockwell. Los Angeles has become a financial center after new york.

Los Angeles is also the cultural and entertainment center of the United States. The famous "movie kingdom" Hollywood, charming Disneyland and beautiful Beverly Hills make Los Angeles a world-famous "movie city" and "tourist city". Expressway and the city streets criss-cross, dense as a spider web, extending in all directions. The road area in Los Angeles accounts for about 30% of the city's area. It is the most developed city in expressway and the city with the most cars in the United States.

Los Angeles is also very developed in culture and education. There are world-famous California Institute of Technology, UCLA, University of Southern California, Huntington Library and Getty Museum. The Los Angeles Public Library has the third largest collection in the United States.

Los Angeles is the largest industrial center in the western United States, and its manufacturing output accounts for about12 of California, ranking third in the country. Los Angeles is also a modern deep-water harbor. There is a famous thermos bottle project in Long Beach nearby, which is an artificial island for oil exploitation. There is a unique large inclined shaft on the island.

A large number of immigrants have made Los Angeles a multi-ethnic and multi-cultural international city. Ethnic minorities account for about half of the city's population and there are many immigrant communities. Areas inhabited by various ethnic groups have formed their own "cities". Los Angeles is also one of the major gathering places for Chinese Americans, with about 400,000 Chinese.