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Haha, did someone actually tell you the weather is fine? I was born in Texas and I've lived in Austin for 13 years and I've always thought the summers are unbea
by pram 4y ago
Haha, did someone actually tell you the weather is fine? I was born in Texas and I've lived in Austin for 13 years and I've always thought the summers are unbearable.
Although my perspective is tempered with what I experienced around the gulf, in Mississippi and Florida. The humidity there is so bad I literally don't think it's fit for human settlement.
- mc32 4y agoSan Francisco is one of the most humid cities in the US (so much that mold can be a problem in some cases). Relative humidity is on average higher than Wash DC --but lower than Port Arthur, TX.
- spiffistan 4y agoBut SF is also very chilly for California so it really helps with the perception of humidity.
- qbasic_forever 4y agoHumidity isn't so bad when it's in the 50s/60s Fahrenheit all the time.
- fortuna86 4y agoRight heat + humidity is bad, humidity alone isn't even noticed.
- subharmonicon 4y agoI am not sure if you are speaking from experience or looking at weather data, but in 13 years I have never seen indoor humidity high enough to make mold likely. Higher humidity with cool temperatures does not feel like high humidity with high temperatures, which can be unbearable. I sweat profusely in the latter conditions and not all all in the former.
- mc32 4y agoOver by the Great Highway mold can be an issue. But not only there. Yes the cool temps make the humidity very much less noticeable.
- inferiorhuman 4y agoNo, it's very noticeable. Instead of being hot and damp you've got cold that chills you to the bone and you're still really sticky and damp. It doesn't hurt that things stay very foggy so you can pretty much see the humidity (but not the silver painted trams).
- mc32 4y agoTrue, it becomes noticeable at night as the winds become stronger and the fog denser.
- subharmonicon 4y agoYes, there are a lot of microclimates here and I suppose in some mold could be likely. To that point though, most of the neighborhoods I have lived in have had little to no fog. Russian Hill being the exception. I’m not sure how much of a difference that makes in indoor relative humidity or chance of mold.
- trentgreene 4y agoLived in the Presidio, all my neighbors plus our house has a pretty big mold problem, likely from the humidity. When we called maintenance, the answer was to manage airflow and yeah, it’s the presidio, stuffs gonna mold.
- mikysco 4y agoTo be fair, the Presidio is the foggiest/most humid part of SF. Any part of the city & broader Bay Area directly touching coast line attracts dramatically more moisture than anywhere even a few hundred meters inland. Even in the Marina district half a mile away mold isn’t an issue afaik
- rascul 4y ago> San Francisco is one of the most humid cities in the US (so much that mold can be a problem). I've lived in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Georgia and mold has never not been a problem in those states. I have never lived in San Francisco though so I can't compare.
- inferiorhuman 4y agoA friend of mine lived out in the upper 40s for a bit. I don't think mold was an issue for the building so much as it was for their poor dog that perpetually had some sort of skin condition in 'till they both moved somewhere more arid. San Francisco is a peninsula so you're surrounded by large bodies of water on most sides, of course it's going to be really humid. Winter is brutally humid especially if you're west of Twin Peaks.
- ch4s3 4y agoThat’s odd, I was just in Savanah and every place I went there smelled like mold. It was overpowering in one store I went into, where a local remarked that you don’t notice after awhile.
- seanmcdirmid 4y agoThat sort of reminds me of Bali: their new airport already smelled like mold a year after opening. I lived in the south for a few years but I never remember smelling mold so thickly.
- aplummer 4y ago“Never not been a problem” it was a double negative I think you are agreeing.
- ch4s3 4y agoYeah, I was in a COVID medicine haze, I think I misread that.
- happytiger 4y agoSan Francisco is moist. But respectfully, it is not the hot humidity that drives you to to find air conditioning and plan you day around staying inside to avoid.
- trentgreene 4y agoIdk if the second part is really fair - as a Texan turned SF resident, I can understand how the Texas heat can be alarming at first. But if definitely didn’t stop us from going outside, doing things, holding sports practices (outside the rare 115 degree day), etc. The AC is appreciated, but you get acclimated to the heat. And anecdata of one, but I really miss the heat / humidity. Texas civilization does predate AC after all for at least a couple centuries ;)
- igetspam 4y agoThose 115F days are less rare now.
- dragonwriter 4y ago> San Francisco is one of the most humid cities in the US Yes, but its neither particularly hot (so it doesn't tend to be muggy), nor particularly cold (its cold for the densely populated parts of California, but that's not saying much), so the humidity isn't much of a problem. Hence one of the reasons it waa attractive before it was a center of the tech industry.
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- seanmcdirmid 4y agoI’m from the PNW but my dad went into nuclear power so I had the privilege of living in Vicksburg Mississippi for four years as a teenager. I don’t get it. Also tried Austin for a summer when in grad school…, my dashboard melted before I realized you really need those sun protection thingies.