The Heat Is On In San Diego (Santa Ana, La Mesa: how much, buy)

[benshaton]

Originally Posted by InTheZona

Would living in San Diego be a disappointment for someone who enjoys hot summer weather?

Not if you stayed far enough away from the coast, except for when we get either weather like this or hot Santa Anas.

[InTheZona]

Originally Posted by benshaton

Not if you stayed far enough away from the coast, except for when we get either weather like this or hot Santa Anas.

In San Diego, do young, educated professionals tend to congregate in neighborhoods closer to the coast or further inland?

[moved]

Originally Posted by InTheZona

In San Diego, do young, educated professionals tend to congregate in neighborhoods closer to the coast or further inland?

Young, educated professionals congregate wherever they choose to congregate.

[JohnAlt]

Originally Posted by InTheZona

Would living in San Diego be a disappointment for someone who enjoys hot summer weather?

About as big a disappointment as it would be for someone who enjoys a lot of rain. It rains infrequently but can really come down. It gets hot with humidity infrequently be can be very uncomfortable when it does.

[benshaton]

To sum up the last three months, the heat has been close to average for this area.

Summer passes with just one heat wave | UTSanDiego.com

Here's what September is like in San Diego,

National Weather Service - NWS San Diego

I'm hoping that at least if we have to suffer through the humidity, we'll get enough rain to thwart any fire danger from the Santa Anas. Have the recent storms in the mountains had that effect there yet? I love seeing the landscape turn green.

[NorthSDLifer]

Wait a minute. 20 days of left of summer?

[oddstray]

Originally Posted by benshaton

Not if you stayed far enough away from the coast, except for when we get either weather like this or hot Santa Anas.

That first summer here when I nearly froze ... I was in Tierrasanta, not at the coast. I don't know if it reached 70 degrees that entire summer. It was COLD!

[earlyretirement]

Originally Posted by Gentoo

I remember it being that hot in 2011 before I left which was in September although that heat may have been at the end of August. Like I said, I think most are caught off guard every year because there's no warning of its coming and most people in SD don't follow the weather that closely because most of the time you don't need to.

I agree. 2 summers ago we had a one week or so stretch of really hot and humid weather. I'm always amazed at many of our friends that say they have never turned on the AC yet all year besides last week. No way I'd want to live in San Diego without AC. There are always some times of the year where to be comfortable I think you'd need it.

If not, I'd spend lots of time at the beach, the pool or waterpark.

We've been at the beach, pool and today heading to Aquatica Water Park.

[moved]

And then, a couple of years ago, we had the summer where it never got hot.

[RD5050]

Originally Posted by LocalType

I'm new to SD so not familiar with the summer weather patterns. I'm coming from New England, but our June-July-August there is very similar to the June-July-August I've experienced here so far. But since I don't know what to expect as fall rolls in, is it a good idea to keep a small a/c unit on hand?

My apt. came with a tower fan and ceiling fan, that's all, but so far it's fine. It's a very small place and I'm right off Mission Bay so I'm doing ok right now. I don't have a pool, though, sadface. Ice cream almost makes up for it... almost.

Mostly I just have a hard time moving the heat out of the apt. in the evening so I can get the cool night air in.

I said this in another thread, and I'll repeat it here as well.

Get a box fan, and put it in your window, and have it blow outward instead of inward. Use it as an exhaust fan.

Also open the other windows throughout the home/apt so the box fan will suck in the fresh cool air from these windows, and also blow out the hot air from all the rooms.

I have my box fan located in my kitchen window, and when I turn it on, I can feel fresh cool air being sucked in from every other window, including my bedroom.

And since my box fan is in my kitchen, I don't hear any fan noise when I sleep.

When I woke up this morning, my bedroom was 69, and the outside temp was 72.

Another option is get a portable indoor A/C unit like one of these:

Home Depot Portable A/C Units

I have a portable A/C and only use it when the weather gets extremely hot (90+). I just sit in front of it when I'm watching TV, etc.

When the sun goes down, then I turn it off and just use the box fan.

San Diego typically has some of it's hottest days in late August, September and October:

10 All Time Hottest Days in San Diego