Plenty of it.
We recently moved from Baltimore to Southern California, and i’m rather sad that i’m going to have basically no opportunity to wear my nice winter coats, jackets, and woollen pants here in San Diego.
ETA: It was over 80 degrees here yesterday, ferchrissakes. We went to the beach, which was lovely, but i would like a proper winter, or at least a halfhearted attempt at one.
Los Angeles/Pasadena
Yes. I grew up in Quebec and Massachusetts, went to undergrad in Montreal, grad school in Urbana-Champaign. I have boxes and boxes of sweaters, mitts and winter gear.
Most, however, are at my parents’ house.
Right now I wear a lululemon jogging zipup early in the morning and nothing the rest of the day. It takes a lot for me to even don my leather jacket. However, I did bring back a winter coat from the east coast (new) when I came back last time because it had been getting chilly in L.A. for about five minutes.
But basically while the native Californians are wearing puffy down coats I’m usually strolling around in a cardigan. I’ve had more than one person stop me in the streets and ask me if I’m aware of the temperature over the 3.5 years I’ve lived here.
OTOH, I am way way way more covered up in summer than some of the women here. Other than when I’m going out with my bf, I’m usually covered from the neck down.
We have coats and gloves and scarves (it’s going to be, like, 10 tonight, but that’s extremely rare - hasn’t happened since the 80’s) but we don’t have boots or snow pants or anything like that.
Nope. 
(Moved to the desert 3 years ago and shipped all the serious winter stuff off to The Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.)
I live in MS and when I woke up this morning it was 12 degrees. Seriously. WTF?
Anyway, I spent 20 minutes searching for enough cold weather stuff like scarves and hats and gloves to outfit me and the second grader to get us to where we needed to go. It’s around, just in case there is a cold football game or something; it’s not handy for everyday use. It comes out less than the Christmas decorations.
Not really. I have two leather jackets for motorcycle riding that can double as regular coats if it’s a bit chilly, and I have a scarf that was given to me as a Christmas gift, but that’s the extent of it. Despite being a native Angelino, I happen to prefer colder weather. I don’t ever get cold in LA, and I could recently be seen in Washington D.C. on a 20-something degree night walking up F Street in shorts and a long-sleeve t-shirt.
So, no. 
Coming from Vermont and upstate New York, and being skiers and winter hikers, we had loads of winter gear. And, my wife is a long-distance, champion knitter, so tons of sweater were around the house.
We’ve been in the Arizona desert for 14 years now. Like most newcomers, in winter, at first, we wore t-shirts and shorts until we acclimated. Now, if it gets down to 50 F we are freezing and bundle up. 
BTW, as the poster from Tucson noted, all this week the temperatures have been in the mid-to-high 70s, not too shabby for January, eh?
Most of the sweaters, coats, gloves, etc we gave to our kids or to goodwill. But, as I climb mountains (big ones) I have a load of winter clothing and gear, plus ice ax, crampons and below-zero sleeping bag. The latter ones I rarely use in the desert.
When I moved from New England to SW Florida I got rid of most of it.
I still have a couple hats, a good coat, single pair of gloves and boots. I keep those purely for short visits to areas with colder weather, otherwise I don’t use them. The rest of my clothing generally doesn’t change for the weather.
(It was about 40F this morning…I saw people wearing parkas, sheesh)
I have quite a good overcoat, left over from when I lived in Wellington. I usually drag it out and wear it two or three times in July and August when winter is at its coldest. If I need other cold weather stuff (gloves etc) I generally borrow them from someone.
When I moved from California to Michigan in 2002 I had to acquire a whole winter wardrobe. I grew up in Northern California and it does get cold and rainy in the winter, but nothing to compare with Michigan. I didn’t have any relatives who lived in actually cold places, both of my parents are from LA and the thought of the mercury dipping below 50 horrifies them, so I had rarely spent any time in cold weather at all in my whole life. I think I’d only seen snow three or four times at the age of 22.
It took me a few years to realize that it’s better to invest in more expensive winter clothes than to buy cheap stuff. It’s worth the price.
I moved to Florida from South Dakota and I brought stuff with me; Marcie moved from Seattle and brought stuff with her. We have heavy coats, sweaters, winter boots and long johns. Damn glad we do, too; its been in the 40s here the last few nights. In Florida, anything less than 60 is damn cold; 60-70 is just chilly; 70-90 is just about right.
This is not really typical. Hopefully it will cool down for another stretch soon.
Central Miss. here also (I’m a few miles from Juliana). People here who are hunters will have lots of cold weather stuff, especially duck hunters (why on earth people want to lay in the cold mud and shoot at ducks when it’s 10 degrees out and raining, I’ve no earthly idea). People who are not hunters will have odds and ends which are all about 50 years old, including that scratchy wool sweater from Aunt Edith which you use about once every 5 years.
People in North Mississippi are more likely to own long underwear, insulated gloves, heavy coats, that kind of thing.
I happen to have a pair of insulated, waterproof boots but that’s because of my occupation. Most non-hunters won’t have those.
I’m also in Tucson, and I have cold weather gear. Mainly because I moved out from NE Ohio less than 2 years ago, but also because I occasionally have to travel to colder areas during the winter. I don’t have my puffy down-filled michelin man coat anymore - that went to Goodwill before I left Ohio, but I do have the gloves, a hats, a couple of wool coats.
How about your cities?
Vancouver and Victoria got into a huge amount of trouble in December because they received a big dump of snow – large but manageable by Montreal standards, but they simply don’t have enough snow removal equipment because they only get that much snow about once every ten years. Madrid suffered a huge blizzard a week or two ago and faced a similar (but worse) problem.
Do your cities have snow-removal equipment? Do you have shovels?
I live in west central Indiana, and I do not own a coat. I do have a couple of hoodies (They rarely get worn. I’d probably only wear one if we had a blizzard) and a light jacket. I own no hats or scarves, but I do have a pair of gloves.
I refuse to wear a coat, because it is just too hot for me. I have been having those wonderful hot-flashes for years now, and I can’t even begin to imagine wearing anything heavier than a light blouse or a t-shirt when I go out.
Since our temperature has been below zero for the past few days, I did wear my gloves, along with a light sweater blouse when I went out to clean the freshly fallen 4" of snow off my car on Wednesday, and then, only because the wind chill was around -30. It wasn’t as bad as everyone let on, honestly. I was only out there for about 15 minutes, but I didn’t get too cold at all.
It’s amazing how a body can get acclimated to the conditions, if you live in the area long enough.
I live in Key Largo, FL and when I went up to PA in December for a family issue, I had to buy a coat and gloves- I brought a hat, scarf, and neckwarmer that I’d knitted to bring. I basically packed 1 pair of jeans, the 2 sweatshirts that I own and just did laundry while I was there.
We have a few “cold” nights here a year- tonight it’s going down into the 50s, and while that sounds like a balmy night to most people, it’s damned cold for us. Most of us keep some cool/cold weather gear (not crazy stuff like parkas, though) and if we don’t have what we need and have to go up north we just borrow.
No, not the specialized stuff. I mean, we have backhoes and dumptrucks, but not snowblowers or snowplows or anything like that.
If it snows, everything shuts down. I mean, schools let out, businesses close, nothing’s going to be open but the 7-11 and the hospital.
That’s been discussed here before and I think the general consensus is, it’s actually not a benefit to keep up with all that equipment for the rare snowfall in temperate areas.
I don’t even think places as far north as Memphis have any plows, but I could be wrong about that.
Oh, and people don’t have snow-shovels per se. Just regular garden shovels. We’ve no use for snow shovels.
I live in Huntsville AL, We had our first day below freezing in a long while. I do have cold and very cold weather gear, from my time spent in Russia. I only break it out every once in a long while.
Osip
Barely. I’m wearing the extent of my cold weather gear here – I’m the one on the right in the blue/gray jacket. Underneath it is a sweater from Old Navy, and the rest of the outfit is just jeans, sneakers, and a t-shirt.
That is the only time I’ve ever worn the jacket and the sweater together, and that’s just cause we went to see ICE! which is kept at 9 degrees.
The lowest temperature here in my memory was 29, and that was for a single day over 15 years ago. It moved into the higher 30s then 40s over the following week. It’s going down to 43 tonight (and I am FREEZING right now at 50), and that’s as cold as we regularly see it.
And as far as matt_mcl’s question about snow removal: if we ever got snow enough to need plowing, our state would basically shut down completely. There are no plans whatsoever in place for handling snow.