Which cities are liveable without air conditioning – and for how much longer? (record, global warming)
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Southern Californian coast is liveable without air conditionning.
Very true, BUT the SoCal coast is MASSIVELY EXPENSIVE. Also, while summer daytime highs may average 70-75 degrees at the beach, it gets progressively hotter as you drive inland. San Fernando Valley and the Inland Empire are MUCH hotter than the beach areas. How much hotter? At least 20 degrees hotter.
For more affordable real estate in SoCal, you'll most likely be searching inland locations with brutal summers. Even at my place in Rancho Bernardo, a mere 15 miles from the coast, the temps have exceeded 90 degrees too many times to count already this summer (for the record, we have had more brutal summers before.) And it's not a dry heat. We've seen 90+ degree temps combined with 70+ degree dewpoints. I don't know about you, but I use air conditioning everyday at my house and in my car in Rancho Bernardo. And real estate is still $500/square foot here!
San Bernardino average temps (well in the 90s all summer long):
Years ago Parade Magazine listed the best climate major metros in the United States and Oakland CA came out on top based on the number or Heating and Cooling Days.
No one around here has A/C and most older houses had only a small floor furnace... nearly ideal climate.
The small town of Pacifica adjacent to San Francisco can be 40 cooler than 40 or 50 miles inland and it never freezes...
As we lose cities that don't need AC, we'll be gaining cities that don't need heat, it's all good. I prefer global warming to global cooling, the next ice age really has me freaked
A/C is rare where I live but I could use it for a weeks every summer. We generally manage to keep inside temp below 30c but that's because my apartment is almost on ground level, so it does not get much less sun exposure. A fan is mandatory anyway.
Heating is definitely useful for the colder half of the year.
A/C is rare where I live but I could use it for a weeks every summer. We generally manage to keep inside temp below 30c but that's because my apartment is almost on ground level, so it does not get much less sun exposure. A fan is mandatory anyway.
Heating is definitely useful for the colder half of the year.
I like my inside temp to be below 21C....I can't believe italians can stand so much heat. When I was in Italy, I complained about the poor AC in my hotels and they just shrugged, it's fine (it wasn't for me) which is why I would never go back to Italy in the summer....now with Global warming, Spring and Fall are out and I'll only consider going in the winter.
p.s. They also keep their hotels super hot in the winter in Europe so I only stay in hotels that allow open windows in the winter when I'm in Europe.
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It barely cools down below mid 70s overnight + humid summertime!
