Posted 3:57 PM by Floyd

I was going to blog about the weather anyway when I saw this lament from a transplanted Canadian:

I just held a thermometer out the window, and it registered 94 (aka "35"). Ninety-four! It's 5:30 PM! That's about 35 degrees warmer and 1100% sunnier than it's supposed to be in this city at this point in the year. I knew something was nuts when we opened the window and the apartment got warmer.

It's even hotter here in Mountain View at 99 degrees (37 for those of you reading in Canadia). June has been a weird month for weather. It reminds me of my sojourn in West Lafayette, Indiana, where if you didn't like springtime weather you could just wait a few days for something different. Drastically different. Most of the month has been on the cool side, especially at my house in Sky Londa at an elevation of 1300 feet. On a hot day like today, Sky Londa will also be hot, maybe five degrees cooler. But when the Valley has a temperate day with a high of 70, my place will be overcast and much cooler. Two weeks ago there were several days when the temperature did not get above the high 50's. (I have a 24-hour thermometer that records highs and lows.)

One feature of Bay Area weather is the cool nights. Summer nights in the hills are usually too chilly for me, but they're perfect for this weather. Even on a scorching day where it tops 100 degrees at my house, the low is around 70. (The highest overnight low I have ever recorded is 74 degrees.) For example, yesterday I sweltered through Mountain View's mid-90s heat . When I got home at 7:30 the temperature was below 80. Later last night my wife and I went on a drive down to the coast; south of Half Moon Bay the local temperature was Evan's San Francisco ideal of 59 degrees.


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