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I don't believe there is such thing in continental U.S., not even in most of the inhabitated Alaska, apart from the northern shore...
I live 2 hours from Canadian border, we get down to below 50'F at night, but since I live in a brick building, the walls are still hot even at midnight. They get, somewhat, less hot around 5am. Which coincides with the sun-rise and the cycle repeats
If I turn both the ACs off, even though it's 45 'F outside, it will be unbearably hot within an hour.
I presume that in a properly insulated house, it could be different but those tall brick walls basically act like huge radiators.
I haven't yet found a better way to handle this, than switch day and night - you work during the night, and enjoy somewhat bearable lesser heat (e.g. 50-60 'F), and just sleep through the most of the daily sun's evil radiation...
I followed the link and entered the name of my city, Buenos Aires. It says it doesn't need heating because "Days in the coldest month usually settle around 11.3C and seldom get colder than 7.7C."
Unless "days" is meant to refer to "daylight", then what it says is inaccurate. The average low in the coldest month is 7.4 C (45.3 F), so that means that at least half the time the temp drops below 7.4 C. So I wouldn't say that temps "seldom" get colder than 7.7 C (45.9 F). And even if we don't need very sophisticated heating (or insulated walls and the like), most days in the winter we need some kind of basic heating for sure, especially on humid and windy days.
I followed the link and entered the name of my city, Buenos Aires. It says it doesn't need heating because "Days in the coldest month usually settle around 11.3C and seldom get colder than 7.7C."
Unless "days" is meant to refer to "daylight", then what it says is inaccurate. The average low in the coldest month is 7.4 C (45.3 F), so that means that at least half the time the temp drops below 7.4 C. So I wouldn't say that temps "seldom" get colder than 7.7 C (45.9 F). And even if we don't need very sophisticated heating (or insulated walls and the like), most days in the winter we need some kind of basic heating for sure, especially on humid and windy days.
Yeah I think they need a stricter threshold for heating, but their cutoff for AC doesn't seem unreasonable.
True, but as long those are short episodes people would just endure it with a help of a fan.
Unless there is a long lasting climate change, they will go without AC for a while.
It does not have it for my city, but for a city not so distant and with a lot of weather it says that you do not need AC.
Good, although some heat waves make it necessary, usually in February as it reaches 86 F.
Southern Californian coast is liveable without air conditionning.
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