Red Carpet weather is more important than you might think. Fortunately, the weather cooperated in Los Angeles for the 79th Annual Academy Awards with low sixties temperatures keeping things on the red carpet calm, relatively cool and collected.

Think of the hair - then after you've put some serious thought into how long Anne Hathaway's updo took or how easy it would be for Reese's bone straight locks to curl with any humidity - only then should you think of the strapless dresses and what could happen should Santa Ana winds decide to swirl around Kodak Theatre. The Oscars are the most watched film awards ceremony in the world and it is therefore imperative that dresses stay up and on, updos stay intact and straight hair stays straight!

The relationship between weather and the Oscars is one that overall tends to benefit the film industry. Not only is Los Angeles a fairly safe bet in February and March in terms of the weather, but think of the great films that owe their success to weather phenomena! Sure, we've all heard of "Twister" and "A Perfect Storm", but the history of weather related film dates back much further.

In 1943, Andrew L. Stone directed "Stormy Weather" starring Cab Calloway and Lena Home. Although the film didn't have that much to do with the weather, you can't deny that the title comes from the weather world - and as an aside, they were up against some tough competition that year with Casablanca cleaning up at the awards!

I looked up the word "Storm" on IMDB.com and found 12 films with the title "Storm"!

In fact, meteorological terminology is often used metaphorically and in a poetic sense in the arts. The 1958 film "Cat On A Hot Tin Roof" starring Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman (based on the play by Tennessee Williams) had a sexy title - just based on the words cat and hot in the title. Why is a cat on a hot tin roof sexy? Well, if the cat is meant to be a woman - with bare feet - a heat transfer would take place from the tin roof to the feet and the woman would then be jumping or prancing on the roof much like a cat..similar to cloud to ground lightning. Was Tennessee Williams really fascinated by conductors and heat transfers? Probably not - but he did choose the title for a reason.