Heat

[Complete Turf Care]

Today, July 2, 2025 at 7:35pm the temperature is 92.6, the dewpoint is 80.6 and the heat index is 113.2

Brutal.....

 

[EddieWalker]

I've been working outdoors for a few months now. Some years I get more indoor jobs, some years, it's all outdoors. I start at 9 am and work till five. I can usually fallow the shade on a house and work on the areas not in direct sun.

Temps are in the low to mid 90's with a heat index over 100. It's doable if you stay outside and never cool off. Once I cool off, I can't handle going back outside again!!!!

 

[grsthegreat]

I used to have to work in the heat…not any longer. Being semi retired i schedule my service calls around the weather. Last week on days it got to 96° i didnt schedule calls until today, when the high was 80°.

I HATE the heat.

 

[ultrarunner]

I used to have to work in the heat…not any longer. Being semi retired i schedule my service calls around the weather. Last week on days it got to 96° i didnt schedule calls until today, when the high was 80°.

I HATE the heat.

Climate is a huge plus for me living in Oakland… go all year without heating or cooling.

Before A/C and swamp coolers the outlying areas remained sparsely populated…

It’s also true that once you have A/C it’s not something you are willing to do without…

 

[EddieWalker]

I never lived in a house with AC until I moved to Texas. I didn't know anybody with AC in their homes when I lived in CA.

 

[ultrarunner]

I never lived in a house with AC until I moved to Texas. I didn't know anybody with AC in their homes when I lived in CA.

Same here…not a single person and this included the few I knew in Concord and Walnut Creek…

Much of the SF Bay Area has as near a perfect as perfect can be mild climate… thus so many older single family homes remain with the original 30 amp 120 volt service…

I posted before about a 3 unit legal war time conversion from single family to 3 units… the building has 3 gas meters and ONE 30 amp 120 Volt service for the entire building… and remained so until 2005… now it has 4 meters… house meter plus 3 unit meters.

TBN is worldwide and I find it fascinating the regional differences.
I was on the East Coast visiting friends and my friend said I would be hard pressed to find anyone without A/C

Dependence on the grid continues to grow as cities move to all electric and shun natural and propane gas.

Unless you have electric heat, A/C, cooking, hot water, etc… a modest electric service is more than adequate.

As a side note… new neighbors paid 1.4 million as is for a 1957 ranch style home of 1500 square feet… one of the first things they did was replace gas appliances with electric and upgraded service from 125 to 200 amp.

They are new to the area and in shock at paying 4 times the cost per kW here as opposed to when they lived in Washington…

You can build it but can you afford to use it?

They also tossed 2 Lopi inserts that were like new… I got one!

 

[sandman2234]

I was on the East Coast visiting friends and my friend said I would be hard pressed to find anyone without A/C

I know of few without some sort of A/C around here.

Dependence on the grid continues to grow as cities move to all electric and shun natural and propane gas.

Unless you have electric heat, A/C, cooking, hot water, etc… a modest electric service is more than adequate.

Dad's house has 60 amp service and worked for a family of seven!

As a side note… new neighbors paid 1.4 million as is for a 1957 ranch style home of 1500 square feet… one of the first things they did was replace gas appliances with electric and upgraded service from 125 to 200 amp.

They are new to the area and in shock at paying 4 times the cost per kW here as opposed to when they lived in Washington…

You can build it but can you afford to use it?

There are people I know who can't afford their electric bill due to a/c costs, but it is mainly from inflation since the time they retired on a marginal retirement plan.

They also tossed 2 Lopi inserts that were like new… I got one!

I didn't even know what a Lopi insert was, till I asked that Google guy!
David from jax

 

[ericm979]

I never lived in a house with AC until I moved to Texas. I didn't know anybody with AC in their homes when I lived in CA.

I grew up in the far eastern part of the SF bay area, almost the central valley. It gets hot there. Many 90+ degree days every summer. There was at least one 112 degree day when I was a teen. My dad got fed up after that and chiseled a hole in the stucco wall to mount a window A/C unit.

In parts of California that are close enough to the coast, hot weather in the interior pulls in cold air from the ocean and cools the coast. When I live a few miles from the ocean in far northern CA, in the summer the fog would roll in at 11am every day and keep it cool. A few miles east it'd be in the 90s.

 

[ultrarunner]

The coastal Mediterranean climate of the Bay Area is the best I have ever found…

That said I could get use to the climate on the Big Island Hawaii at elevation… a home I looked at had 76 year round temp… with fantastic views.

With the defacto mandate of heat pumps in much of the Bay Area heat pump A/C is making inroads.

 

[Complete Turf Care]

July 13, 2025 at 8:15pm. Dewpoint is 80*, heat index is 99*

If you haven't experienced dewpoints of 80*, you can't imagine the misery...