COPPER TONED

Dallas Raines, weatherman, KABC Channel 7

“The first sign is when you can’t see the San Gabriel Mountains. People can come out for a visit in the summer and stay for weeks and never realize that there are mountains there. I also know it’s summer when the lowriders come out. Lowriders don’t drive in the rain. It would be a sin to get rain on their cars.”

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Cory Everson, hostess, ESPN2’s “Gotta Sweat”

“The birds. When you wake up and the birds are chirping and there’s a little bit of sun shining through the windows, it’s like heaven. And the kids that have been playing their darn video games all winter are suddenly out playing kick the can and riding their bikes.”