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Native Texan here: the "average" is in the high 90s but July and August regularly hit--and stay at--100-and-above afternoon temperatures. The hot weather start
by techsupporter 11y ago
Native Texan here: the "average" is in the high 90s but July and August regularly hit--and stay at--100-and-above afternoon temperatures. The hot weather starts around late May and doesn't really wrap up until September. Temperature swings can also be brutal, 101 at 2pm, 50 at 10pm.
Yes, there's air conditioning but you will pay handsomely and but you have to be inside to "enjoy" it. My two-month bill from Seattle City Light last August was 1/3rd what my last one-month August bill was in Texas.
One of the big reasons I left Texas for Seattle was the weather.
- g8gggu89 11y agoI'm not sure that's worse than living in Seattle and for 8 months a year going two week stretches without seeing any blue sky.
- techsupporter 11y agoI'm sure. :) I detest hot weather and after 30+ years of living with it I was ready for a change. "Hot" in Seattle is a handful of days above 90. "Hot" where I'm from is the local news declaring that this is the 10th-consecutive day of highs over 100. Besides, the two-weeks-no-sun thing seems to be more local myth than actual reality in Seattle. Even in the dead of winter there are still sunny days. The days are really short in November and December, but the sun exists. I can work around cloudy days--which I genuinely love--by sitting in front of a Happy Light for an hour or so. That's an acceptable tradeoff, for me, to escape not being able to be outside for more than a few minutes without being drenched in sweat.
- RangerScience 11y agoI don't know about Austin, but 90 in LA is more like 80 somewhere else, due to our lack of humidity, so there's that to consider.
- sehr 11y agoThe humidity in Austin is absolutely ridiculous. It's not Houston by any means, but it's not okay. I used to think San Diego got a bit humid around May gray, I was fucking wrong.