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Funny how it's all relative. I'd be moving to get *away* from the heat. 90 at 6 in the morning is just too much for this old body to handle. If I have to put up with slapping on the chains to get to work a few times a year, so be it!
If you're planning on living in the mountain areas east of town, you would probably want to have some chains handy. That storm was probably the only time in the last 15 years when chains would have been useful within the city, though.
OP, what about Sacramento? If you can't handle heat, do NOT consider ABQ! If for some reason you're drawn to NM, you could consider Santa Fe or Taos, if you don't mind smaller towns. They're in the mountains and are a little cooler. Temps almost never get into 3 digits. It's June now, and it's in the low 80-s to high 70's, which is pretty good. July/Aug are the hotter months.
I don't know what your other criteria are: affordability? That would rule out most of the coastal areas in CA, except possibly the north Coast, which isn't as foggy and rainy as in the past. Sacramento would be a good compromise, IMO. Talk to me, OP; I might be able to help. What are you looking for in a location, exactly?
OP, what about Sacramento? If you can't handle heat, do NOT consider ABQ! If for some reason you're drawn to NM, you could consider Santa Fe or Taos, if you don't mind smaller towns. They're in the mountains and are a little cooler. Temps almost never get into 3 digits. It's June now, and it's in the low 80-s to high 70's, which is pretty good. July/Aug are the hotter months.
I feel the need to stick up for Albuquerque here. While hotter than Santa Fe or coastal California, it's a LOT cooler than someplace like Palm Springs. A heat wave like we had this year, with multiple 100+ days in a row, is pretty uncommon and even then it usually drops into the 60s at night. That's a far cry from Palm Springs, where average highs exceed 100 and average lows top 70 from June through September. There's only one month, July, where Albuquerque's average high even tops 90.
OP, what about Sacramento? If you can't handle heat, do NOT consider ABQ! If for some reason you're drawn to NM, you could consider Santa Fe or Taos, if you don't mind smaller towns. They're in the mountains and are a little cooler. Temps almost never get into 3 digits. It's June now, and it's in the low 80-s to high 70's, which is pretty good. July/Aug are the hotter months.
Dear, you missed my location in the corner of the box. I live in the *desert*. I have more heat than I can handle! Darned near anywhere in the USofA outside of Death Valley is going to be cooler than here in Palm Springs. It was 122 here Monday of last week! I don't mind 90s, I don't mind 100s... it's the one-teens and above that kill me.
I feel the need to stick up for Albuquerque here. While hotter than Santa Fe or coastal California, it's a LOT cooler than someplace like Palm Springs. A heat wave like we had this year, with multiple 100+ days in a row, is pretty uncommon and even then it usually drops into the 60s at night. That's a far cry from Palm Springs, where average highs exceed 100 and average lows top 70 from June through September. There's only one month, July, where Albuquerque's average high even tops 90.
Palm Springs averages 180-185 days a year of >90, around 110-120 days a year of >100, and approximately 30 days of >110.
PS: Our *low* this morning was 86. It gets old when you leave the house at 7am to go to work and you're already hit with temps in the 90s.
Lived there from '07-'09, will be in the region on vacation next week. It's OK if a bit dull, but fairly pricey (its proximity to the SF Bay Area pushes the prices up a bit because there are thousands of people, believe it or don't, who commute from Sac to the SF region every day either by car or the Amtrak commuter trains) plus everything in California is more expensive in general.
Lived there from '07-'09, will be in the region on vacation next week. It's OK if a bit dull, but fairly pricey (its proximity to the SF Bay Area pushes the prices up a bit because there are thousands of people, believe it or don't, who commute from Sac to the SF region every day either by car or the Amtrak commuter trains) plus everything in California is more expensive in general.
I've lived in both cities. Sacramento is at least as hot as Albuquerque in the summer. OP, the climate in ABQ isn't coastal California, but it's pretty good. Snow is rare and short-lived. Summer days can be reasonably hot, but rarely over 100 and rarely hot enough to stop you from doing things outside. The worst part of the weather is the windy and dusty weather in the Spring. But all in all ABQ has better weather than most of America.
If you can't handle heat, do NOT consider ABQ! If for some reason you're drawn to NM, you could consider Santa Fe or Taos, if you don't mind smaller towns. They're in the mountains and are a little cooler. Temps almost never get into 3 digits. It's June now, and it's in the low 80-s to high 70's, which is pretty good. July/Aug are the hotter months.
Santa Fe and Taos get more snow than ABQ. A LOT more. I live off Tramway and get snow but it's melting by the time I head out at 9:00 am and gone by lunch time, even up here. I use a whisk brush from the dollar store to 'shovel' my car out of the snow.
Santa Fe and Taos get more snow than ABQ. A LOT more. I live off Tramway and get snow but it's melting by the time I head out at 9:00 am and gone by lunch time, even up here. I use a whisk brush from the dollar store to 'shovel' my car out of the snow.
That must be some whisk brush... or some dollar store. See - I just *knew* a dollar goes further in New Mexico than it does in California!
You may not have to worry about getting around during the few snowstorms we have if your employer is one of those that shuts down and has "snow days." Educational institutions and other businesses seem to shut down or delay openings for even a minor dusting of snow.
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