I went to the ocean which is about a mile from where I live in the northern California Coastal forest of Redwoods, pines, oaks and ferns with our corgi to take a walk yesterday. It was sunny but so windy that there were huge white caps on the ocean there and the tide was low. I wondered why all the White caps. Later I talked with a friend in Mt. Shasta who told me a snow storm was going to come through there which was why the fog went away here from that so this explained the new sunny and windy phenomenon we are experiencing here near San Francisco. It has been really nice (whatever the cause) to have a break from the more normal June Glooms here near San Francisco or as Mark Twain once put it: "The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco." So, we have two winters here one in the actual winter and one usually between June and August. So, visiting the sunny California coast might not happen for you if you come to San Francisco in the summer much. Best time to visit the San Francisco area is usually Fall or Spring for the best weather here. However, many people love the fact that the weather here is always below about 80 degrees year around and doesn't usually go below 40 degrees either. So, most of the year it is in a 40 degree range with no snow and no 100 degree days for the most part. Where I live it never goes above 80 to 85 degrees year around usually. However, there are always exceptions of maybe one day above this some years. However, if you go inland 10 to 20 miles you often will see 100 to 115 degree temperatures, especially if you go over the coastal range into the Sacramento or San Joaquin Valleys where most of the farming in California is done because we have 4 growing seasons here too which is unusual in most of the world.
Redding was 90 for a while last week which is really early for a temperature this high but is now back mostly into the 70s and 80s for highs. However, I have driven through here in the summer with temperatures of 111 to 115 degrees or more since I was a child. So, Redding gets pretty hot during the summers by August especially. It's nice most cars have air conditioners now because before that everyone had headaches from the heat when I was little because Air Conditioners were very very rare then in cars. We only had the Wind Wings which are windows that catch the air to cool down then. If you turned it all the way open the full blast of the wind would cool you down some. We also used sprayer bottles on our faces and then directed the wind towards our face when it got 110 to 120 degrees so we wouldn't get heat prostration while traveling then too. Headaches were a normal thing for a day or more from the heat and heat prostration was much more common then too in both children and adults without air conditioning. Another option was traveling at night when it was cooler if you could manage that.
I remember one time we put my mother on a plane at LAX and she got to Seattle before we got home to Glendale and it was 115 degrees with no air conditioning and we were stuck in a traffic jam for several hours going home. That was miserable. And the worst was that my Mom was okay in Seattle while we were suffering on the Freeway without an Air conditioner stuck in traffic. I was maybe 10 then.
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