It’s upside down. I know because, after posting that, I looked up Allah, and Allah is upside down too!
Checks high temperatures for today:
Redding: 111
Sacramento: 111
Oakland: 97
San Francisco: 88
San Jose: 104
Fresno: 106
Bakersfield: 108
San Bernardino: 102
Los Angeles: 100
Irvine: 102
Palm Springs: 108
San Diego: 91
Only one California city I could think of with a high temperature under 90, and it was close. And it’s September.
Your definition of mild weather is considerably different from mine.
Who are these Californians without air conditioning??? I think the lions share of Californians live in or near enough to one of the cities on my list to be getting A/C weather.
It is almost like California is in the midst of an unprecedented heat wave.
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Ok, I’ll put in average summertime high temperatures instead.
Redding: 99
Sacramento: 94
Oakland: 75
San Francisco: 72
San Jose: 82
Fresno: 99
Bakersfield: 99
San Bernardino: 96
Los Angeles: 85
Irvine: 82
Palm Springs: 106
San Diego: 77
Average, of course meaning that it is frequently hotter than the listed temps. My source site also graphs 75th & 90th percentiles, but it was more work to figure out what those were and I didn’t bother. I think you’d base you A/C vs no A/C decision on one of those rather than the average.
I can see houses not needing A/C in the Bay Area, although the person I know in Oakland has A/C as she’s in a high rise and with heat from lower units rising into hers… she uses it. She & her wife just bought a retirement home in Palm Springs and they certainly use it there.
The rest looks like A/C temps to me, although maybe if you had a house that got a nice breeze you could get by without it in San Diego too.
Still thinking most Californians have A/C. Probably places on the coast where it’s less needed, but those tend to be wealthy areas where I bet they have it anyway.
This is fair, y’all are clearly more experienced. I was thinking of coworkers, who are mostly credentialed, and live near the coast. They’ve told me that few people “in the area” have A/C, but of course California is a huge state.
According to this article, CA has lower levels of AC but still a majority have it -
Three quarters (75%) of Californians have air conditioning, but this is 16 percentage points lower than the average rate of AC ownership across all other states in the U.S. (91%; n = 7,324).
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I expect within a year or two a lot more Californians will have it than do now!
During my tenure in Portland lots of people added it. My first Portland home didn’t have it, but it had forced air heat, so an easy add-on, and the builder had been offering it as an upgrade, so several of my neighbors had it. (House was 3 years old when I bought it.). Guy who bought it from me added A/C shortly after purchasing the house. Climate change was just getting to the point where it was becoming more than just “nice to have” but actually something you felt like wasn’t much of a luxury.
OR or ME?
I have stayed in coastal B&B in ME and even MA w/o AC. But times are changing
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I worked at a ~50 room B&B in Boston one summer and the owner had about three fewer window air conditioners than rooms. He couldn’t get any more units because everyone was sold out and much to his chagrin he often couldn’t sell the rooms with no A/C, or if he did it would be at an incredibly deep discount.
Following summer I dropped by to say “hi” and all of the air conditioners were stacked up in the laundry in mid-August and he mentioned that not a single person had asked for air conditioning, not even for the rooms on the 3rd floor. I just happened to hit Boston on an especially / unusually hot summer.
He converted to apartments after Romneycare passed so the B&B is no more, but I assume all of the apartments have air conditioning now.
My sister lives in San Rafael. Her husband grew up in Marin County. He has always said they didn’t need AC. When they get hot weather they get sea breezes. They have a “mountain” between their house and the ocean. It may take a couple days, but eventually the winds are strong enough to pull the fog over the mountain and cool them down.
He’s been getting quotes on AC this month.
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Growing up in the Bay Area we didn’t have AC because it only rarely got hot. Average temps have increased significantly and now most people do have AC up there. Of course it’s the coastal zone that can get by without it. I have it here in Santa Barbara but many of my neighbors do not.
The inland places on your list were always very hot in the summer but only for a few days at a time. The current heat wave is much longer in duration than has been the norm.
Wow- she said some pretty “interesting” things. Her fellow democrats said some pretty respectable things concerning her comments. I expect that she’ll stay in the race, people will forget about her comments and Tim Scott will easily get re-elected.
1-This was a “Project Veritas” edited recording. They have a proven track record of 100% misrepresenting the actual conversation they release.
2-I am dissapointed, but not surprised that her South Carolina colleagues are being manipulated so easily by these hucksters.
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Probably true on all counts. Nice to see the Democratic Party calling for her to withdraw. And this is one of the first truly fitting entry’s to the thread.
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Project veritas is a big red flag on the story. There might be true bits but you can’t rely on anything from them. Needs a second source for sure.
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Project Veritas is like an early pioneer of the shit show we have today in right wing news.
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In another one of VP Harris’ tossed and twisted word salads, she tells us that the southern US border is secure. huh??? Millions of people would prove to you otherwise. Doe she even believe this nonsense that she’s spouting???
In the interest of full disclosure, and probably not as a shock to any other posters here, I am neither a woman nor black. But I have been on many flights, and mostly always in coach. I don’t have any idea what she is talking about here. This democrat got busted and is trying to make up some sort of flimsy excuse. It goes no where, it doesn’t even get off the ground.
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“despite the number of illegal migrant arrests setting a pace to surpass a staggering 2 million for the first time ever later this month.”
Is that a good or bad thing for the Biden administration?
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