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It's always odd to hear people complain about California weather.

• lisper 6y ago
  Just for the record, I'm not actually complaining about the weather. I still would not trade our weather for anyplace else in the world. But the trend over the ten years I've been living here full time (and some shorter-term stints living here in the 80's) seems alarming to me.
• jedberg 6y ago
  Part of the reason for that is because our houses are built for only temperate weather, especially the older ones. My house was built in the 60s. It had single pane windows and no insulation under the floor in the crawlspace. It also had no attic fan. We upgraded the windows and put in an attic fan, and that mostly works, but we still need the A/C a lot these last few years. The house just doesn't hold temperature well. If there is more than a few degrees variance in either direction the temp swings wildly if I turn off the a/c. This house was designed for the air outside to always be right around 72. Another related story, I was using a datacenter in San Francisco. When the outside temp hit 85, we had to start shutting down servers. They told us the datacenter was designed with the assumption that the outside temp wouldn't ever get past 80.
• guyzero 6y ago
  No one in California is prepared for anything remotely close to actual weather, with the exception of people who live in the mountains. Thus any deviation from the extremely limited norm seems shocking. That said, I grew up in southern ontario where discussing the weather is pretty much a widespread hobby, so it's actually kind of nice to have weather to discuss.