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SLO can get hot once in a blue moon, but after about 2PM it starts to cool and even on a 90 degree day it will get into the 50's at night. Great sleeping weather and AC needed
I live in Oregon's Willamette Valley and summers are generally fine: top end temperatures June through September range from just below 80 (F) to mid 80's. Little humidity; in fact so little that in some years we have to be Verrrry careful about outdoor burning and fireworks.
OTOH, I have seen the local weather station record an official 108 and my own unofficial but accurate thermometer has registered 111. That ain't so fine. I have also seen that same weather station's winter temperature hit -6 and mine see 0. Also not-so-fine.
I was in SLO only once, a long time ago so I can't judge; only to say it was in early July, blazing sunshine, the temperature about 68 and the wind howling toward Cuesta Ridge was strong enough you could run out of gas driving against it. And that was down hill. Maybe a thermal trough decided to wander a bit farther east?
I wonder if other nearby places in California have summer weather as agreeable as San Luis Obispo's was (when I wasn't there)? Places like Lompoc, Santa Maria, Santa Barbara, Ojai. I am not familiar with any of those places but I'm just curious.
I wonder if other nearby places in California have summer weather as agreeable as San Luis Obispo's was (when I wasn't there)? Places like Lompoc, Santa Maria, Santa Barbara, Ojai. I am not familiar with any of those places but I'm just curious.
These places do have fantastic weather year-round. Santa Barbara's climate may be considered the most ideal. The climate in San Luis Obispo is typically very agreeable, and perhaps you just caught it on a windy day. Then again, if you like hot weather, Ojai is just about the only one of those cities that gets a spate of it.
Yeah I like it a lot. It is very chilly, and often prone to ocean-borne stratus clouds in the summer. However, there is ample sunshine year-round and rarely does it get too hot. I think the climate on the east bay, in Oakland and Berkeley is prefererable, but someone could certainly argue the opposite.
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