Obama aides loving the California weather

Top aides to President Obama seemed in awe of the 60-degree weather Friday in the Bay Area, where they helped open the White House cybersecurity gathering.

Chief Obama counterterrorism adviser Lisa Monaco and National Economic Council Director Jeffrey Zients repeatedly remarked on the “beautiful morning” in opening statements to the crowd.

{mosads}”I spend my days in a windowless basement office in the West Wing,” Monaco said to laughs. “We affectionately call it ‘the cave.’ When I’m not there I spend my time in another windowless room — the Situation Room. So I’m not used to all this sunshine. It is really terrific.”

She later stated several times that the weather was “not the only reason” White House officials found themselves on the West Coast.

Obama’s team was at Stanford University in Silicon Valley for the summit bringing together corporate leaders, experts and government officials to discuss cyberthreats.

Obama was scheduled to sign an executive order welcomed by industry that would lay the groundwork for information-sharing on cyberthreats between the government and private companies.

In Washington, D.C., the temperature was 22 degrees.