I think it got to be about 90 degrees where I am on the northern California coast yesterday relatively near San Francisco and Santa Cruz California. Today right now it is only 82 degrees at 1 pm so this is a lot better.
Where I live 90% of the people do not have air conditioning simply because you don't need it likely 364 days a year mostly. So, for example, we put blankets covering windows that face the sun in our home to reduce solar heating today so likely the inside temperature is around 73 to 76 degrees right now without air conditioning which is bearable. I'm out on my deck in the back yard in the shade of one of the walls of our master bedroom and under the shade of a beach umbrella at an outside glass table sitting in year around outside chair. And because it is a pleasant 82 and I'm not in direct sunlight it is quite pleasant right now looking at our roses and pine trees and oak trees in our large back yard here on the northern Coast of California. The sea breeze is kicking up off the ocean too so this is a nice boon as well right now too.
But inland, if you don't have air conditioning, some people are really suffering especially those who have to work out in over 100 degree temperatures the last 7 days. I wonder how many have died from California to Colorado during these hellish days inland? And I wonder how many have had to go to the hospital with heat prostration.
I'm half Scottish so I have this really thick Scottish hair that is great when you need to be warm but used to give me heat prostration in over 100 degree temperatures in the 1970s. Though I never went to the hospital for this condition I did often have headaches of 1 to 3 days from the heat from age 10 to around 30 years of age when I began to be more careful because I wanted to stay alive and didn't see myself as immortal as young physically active men often do.
So, luckily I didn't die from heat prostration before I was 30 but I came close on many occasions especially working outside in over 100 degree Fahrenheit situations.
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EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM PDT FRIDAY... * WHAT...A prolonged period of dangerously hot conditions with record and near record temperatures of 105 to ...
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