Unusually High Humidity on Northern California Coast

It is only about 5 degrees hotter I would say than an average summer here but what is remarkable is the humidity. Our housekeeper keeps complaining about it. Her face looked like she had been sunburned at the beach with her kids which she does when she usually leaves about 2 to 3 in the afternoon. So, I asked her if she was sunburned from the beach. She said, "No. I'm flushed from the humidity and working inside here." This is very unusual for this time of year for us. For some reason our humidity level even here on the Northern California coast isn't usually that high. But, this year it is. For example, I was blogging here sitting inside at a dining room table on my laptop and feeling sort of crappy and realized I hadn't taken off my jeans and put on Bermuda shorts yet. So, even though it likely isn't more than 70 degrees Fahrenheit outside, it is still too hot (without air conditioning on) to be wearing long jeans this time of year. So, even here the weather is really strange from what it usually is. There are usually only maybe 20 days a summer when it is warm enough out that I want to put on Shorts. But, this summer it is literally every single day by about 2 pm. So, this likely is what people are experiencing from San Francisco north and south a couple of hundred miles from here along the coast.

Besides, no one here where I live has air conditioning in their homes. We haven't needed it the last 20 years or so here. (Though I've lived in this area for 20 years now I've only been living in our present home for I think 16 years now.)

Two people recently bought a portable air conditioner by Frigidaire, a friend of my wife's in an apartment and  my oldest daughter in Portland bought one too that has wheels built on it so you can roll it around from room to room as needed so you can plug it in wherever you are.

Both of them have really been cooking lately in the heat because neither place they live ever needed air conditioning ever before. But, this year they do. And next year they might too, so they are now prepared.