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cascadia summers hardly need AC too, it rarely gets over 35c

• baumy 6y ago
  35 Celsius = 95 Fahrenheit for my fellow yanks. That seems like a pretty extreme line to draw for "when do I need AC". I don't know about you, but the indoor temperature above which I start wanting AC is around 72-75F, or ~23C. Lots of the PNW gets over that for much of the summer. It didn't used to be this way, but I've wanted AC in Seattle for at least a few weeks a year, sometimes as much as 6 - 8 weeks, since 2013 or 2014. Particularly because the insulation in a lot of apartment buildings meant to make them more efficient in winter causes them to heat up like a furnace in a hot summer.
  • jdminhbg 6y ago
    It can really depend on how much air circulation you can get. In a high rise, you will need AC, but if you’re in a house you can easily manage with open windows and ideally a fan in your roof that can pull air up and in. There are very few days even in Portland where the temps don’t fall into comfortable as soon as the sun sets.
• mjevans 6y ago
  At least by the sounds and oceans it's a rather humid heat. AC sure is a quality of life if not a necessity of life... Though if our homes were built for this climate rather than by Californian companies using shoddily adapted designs it might be another story.
• irrational 6y ago
  That's not true. At least not where I live in the Portland Metro Area. Mid July - early September is pretty much constantly 35+C.
• coryrc 6y ago
  This (not needing A/C) was true until the now-annual fires made it dangerous to open the windows.