A solid week of rain (San Diego, San Francisco: casino, costs, stats)

[moved]

Originally Posted by cruitr

Not on my iphone. Did you hear the rain a few minutes ago? I hope that's the end of our rain for 2020.

They were in the forecast yesterday for this week, but aren't in there now. But you never know........ And it's currently wet outside, too.

[T. Damon]

We’ve measured 1/4” from last night till now. A potential quarter inch of rain forecast in San Diego usually warrants a Storm Watch alert from the local media complete with dire graphics and ominous theme music. I guess we’ve gotten a little accustomed to this after last week.

[Axxlrod]

Originally Posted by Suburban_Guy

Lots of rain and also very cold.

Enjoying it while it lasts.

A very long, miserable hot and humid Summer and Fall is just around the corner.

I hope so! Bring on the heat. Humid?

Originally Posted by blockzilla

I really hope not. This "new" heat and humidity every summer since 2014 has gotten really old for me. There are a few posters here that really love the heat and humidity, warm ocean, and good for them, but I'd love to have the good old fashioned high 70's summer weather I enjoyed from 2002-2014. Seems like the new normal is Florida like humidity and dew points for the better part of July-October now though.

Florida-like humidity?

Have you ever been to Florida in the summer?

[Clark Fork Fantast]

Originally Posted by 1AngryTaxPayer

Freakin ground hog day. It never ends.

Originally Posted by saibot

Best description of the current situation I've heard yet.

Amen to that!

[blockzilla]

Originally Posted by Axxlrod

I hope so! Bring on the heat. Humid?



Florida-like humidity?

Have you ever been to Florida in the summer?

I lived in Tampa for 2 years, including the summers. If I had an easy chart I could find comparing dew points of San Diego and Florida over the past 4-5 summers, you might be really surprised at the number of times San Diego was higher. I'm a bit of a weather junkie so checked that kind of stuff every day but not so much that I kept detailed stats Florida is well cooled off post-Halloween as well, where most summers since 2014 we're topping 90 well into November.

Last summer wasn't as bad in that it started later and ended earlier than previous summers, but it only seemed cooler by comparison to the "new norm" starting in 2014. There were a ton of days last summer that it topped 90 degrees at my house ~5 miles from the ocean as the crow flies. If there were that many 90+ days in the early to mid-2000s, it would've been big news on here!

More anecdotal evidence, I also work in an office at the tip of Point Loma, almost on top of the ocean, with no A/C, and from 2002-2013 I and my colleagues could probably count the number of "uncomfortable to be wearing dress clothes" days at maybe 20 or so TOTAL for all those years? So few that we never thought it an issue. Whereas even last year 2019, the "cool" summer, there were at least 30 days from July to October that it was uncomfortable due to the heat/humidity combination. We know because we kept track to try and push the leadership that it's getting unprofessional to have it that hot in the offices! We just never even thought of it much all those years pre-2014.

Great news for heat lovers though, glad you are enjoying it! For me, not many other places to turn, maybe the Bay Area or PNW for cooler summers? Man, I really miss the "old" SoCal weather!

[moved]

Originally Posted by Axxlrod

I hope so! Bring on the heat. Humid?



Florida-like humidity?

Have you ever been to Florida in the summer?

I grew up in the DC area. It would be 100 degrees out with 100% humidity, and the minute you step outside your door, you were drenched in sweat.

[Axxlrod]

I'm a SoCal native, so very attuned to our weather here.

I've never lived in FL, but wife's parents live in Ft Lauderdale, so have visited many, many times. The humidity in FL is stifling from May through September. Like profusely sweating within 20 seconds of walking outside.

While some summers here in SD have been a little "stickier" than others, I don't think it's remotely similar to FL humidity.

My opinion.

[T. Damon]

Originally Posted by moved

I grew up in the DC area. It would be 100 degrees out with 100% humidity, and the minute you step outside your door, you were drenched in sweat.

OMG! We moved there when I was nine from the Central Valley for a couple of years and even at that easygoing age at which everything is fine as long as you’re outside playing with your friends I remember being absolutely physically overwhelmed by DC’s humidity. I’ve been there a few times as an adult in the summer and it is comical, if a bit embarrassing, at how much I am sopping wet within 15 minutes of outside exposure.

Yeah, we have a couple of more steamy summers the last couple years than usual but I agree that it has never come close to that oppressive, sticky, utterly untenable for me climate.

[JohnAlt]

Originally Posted by moved

I grew up in the DC area. It would be 100 degrees out with 100% humidity, and the minute you step outside your door, you were drenched in sweat.

That would be a dew point of 100 degrees which has never happened anywhere in the U.S. Record is 90 degrees.


https://www.wunderground.com/blog/we...peratures.html

[malcorub16]

On the plus side, I highly recommend as a way to get out of the house during this pandemic, take aimless drive around our back country on a non rainy day especially with how cheap gasoline and how light traffic is right now. It is beautiful right now.

As a point of reference, maybe drive toward one of the closed casinos. We drove to Sycuan and around Crest and up towards Barona. Driving around with your favorite music is good for some diversion, for your mental health and just to get out of the house to drive and see how GREEN SD's back country is right now!!!!! In all seriousness, it feels like a different world around here when its green.

PSA- Of course try to limit contact with others if you take my recommendation and maybe just not leave your car if others are around.