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Old Posted Jul 27, 2022, 7:00 AM
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^ I realize the topic of this part of ssp is about cities & their climate, but I really found the following vid very interesting....it makes me feel good about LB. I recall vacationing there when I was a kid, so it has always been important to me.

https://youtu.be/6W8U3Nl4Zzg

LB is in the shadow of the PV peninsula, so that affects its weather, making it warmer than bch areas further north.

Although I'm not happy to hear the youtuber say the 2nd largest downtown in the LA basin is nicer or cleaner than the largest one is, I'd rather LB be up & coming than the way it was yrs ago. Or the way it was at a time when dt pasadena & the old 2nd St mall in Samo were also struggling. dtla is still trying to shake off the effects from that same moment in time.
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^ I realize the topic of this part of ssp is about cities & their climate, but I really found the following vid very interesting....it makes me feel good about LB. I recall vacationing there when I was a kid, so it has always been important to me.

https://youtu.be/6W8U3Nl4Zzg

LB is in the shadow of the PV peninsula, so that affects its weather, making it warmer than bch areas further north.

Although I'm not happy to hear the youtuber say the 2nd largest downtown in the LA basin is nicer or cleaner than the largest one is, I'd rather LB be up & coming than the way it was yrs ago. Or the way it was at a time when dt pasadena & the old 2nd St mall in Samo were also struggling. dtla is still trying to shake off the effects from that same moment in time.

I like Long Beach a great deal, as I do Pasadena, another city with great history and character. LB is the second largest city in L.A. County (almost 500,000 people) and has several old art deco buildings, and great character. It is up and coming. A year or two ago a new 35 story residential building was completed on the waterfront. On my seldom visited 1920s blog on "Found City Photos" I have posted s YouTube video of the clsssic deco buildings of LB. I intend to return to my 1920s blog soon, and hopefully more people will visit.

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Old Posted Jul 27, 2022, 4:24 PM
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^ I posted the following link earlier in this topic because the youtuber shows a variety of areas in socal...the admittedly more presentable sections of the LA area . But I think his walking vids give a good sense of the way that climate affects the look & vibe of a community.

Although cities in wetter climates tend to be greener....due to lots more rain (which we could use some right now)...there's what I describe as a warmer (literally, figuratively), friendlier look about a Mediterranean type climate. But all cities & countries have both positive & negative traits, & all ppl have different tastes, standards, preferences. So what's a good climate to one person may not be appealing to someone else...& visa versa.


https://www.youtube.com/c/JSOCAL1
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Old Posted Jul 27, 2022, 10:03 PM
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Who doesn't have ac
Do you just make shit it up?
Ive never seen someone try to be an expert of California 2000 miles away.
It's so freaking weird.
lol

There are millions of CA residents with no AC. There are large chunks of the state where it's unnecessary most of the time...so why would everyone have it?

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He’s probably thinking of SF. Most of the housing stock here doesn’t have AC.
Oakland too, as well as many other coastal areas.
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Old Posted Jul 28, 2022, 2:42 AM
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This vid that was posted on Monday makes me think of the point I was making in this thread a few days ago....that LA has a Mediterranean type climate, associated with resort areas in southern Spain and southern france, and parts of Italy too, that also comes within the framework of a large urban scene.

https://youtu.be/QropkR9iasY

Resort areas like cannes, marbella, st tropez, costa del sol, tuscany, etc, are outside major centers like paris, madrid, rome, london, so it's a choice of one or the other. However, transit in europe is very good, so traveling from a resort with beaches & med-type climate to a big city is cheap & convenient.

France's 2nd largest city, coastal marseilles...& older than Paris...does have a med type climate, but it's not as much an international hub as certain other cities are.
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Another unusual aspect of the coastal California climate is having one of the strongest seasonal lags on the planet:



Here in Fairbanks, we have a very short seasonal lag, with the warmest average highs being the first week of July, so our weather is already trending cooler with fall (leaves changing, cold rains, potential for frosts) arriving in mid-August.
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lol

There are millions of CA residents with no AC. There are large chunks of the state where it's unnecessary most of the time...so why would everyone have it?


Oakland too, as well as many other coastal areas.

I never said everyone.
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San Diego area weather has turned perfect again. Highs in 70s F within 5 miles of the coast. Cool nights. Perfect.
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Another unusual aspect of the coastal California climate is having one of the strongest seasonal lags on the planet:



Here in Fairbanks, we have a very short seasonal lag, with the warmest average highs being the first week of July, so our weather is already trending cooler with fall (leaves changing, cold rains, potential for frosts) arriving in mid-August.

Map really shows nicely how in most years the warmest period on most of the Pacific coastal fringe is in mid/late August into September, later than most of the rest of the country, where heat peaks in late June, July, early August (July peak heat covers most of the map). The current heat wave in the northwest is somewhat unusual in being early, before August. Portland OR, being inland from the coast, does have a July heat peak though. But most of the San Diego, L.A. and San Francisco metro coastal areas don't have peak heat until after mid August.

In parts of Arizona, New Mexico, and west Texas peak heat occurs in late June. This is because the monsoonal moisture usually hasn't arrived yet from the Gulf, so the early summer sun (when it is highest in the sky at noon) beats down brutally on the desert. By mid July, the monsoonal clouds and rain have usually arrived (some years they don't), cooling things off a bit.

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I never said everyone.
lol you said this:

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Who doesn't have ac

...which clearly implies that you think everyone in CA has AC. And you were mad about it too:

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Do you just make shit it up?
Ive never seen someone try to be an expert of California 2000 miles away.
It's so freaking weird.
I dunno, he seems like more of a CA expert than you. At least when it comes to the topic of AC.

Chill out man! Turn the AC on, perhaps.
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