> Obviously nowhere else in the U.S. is going to rival the weather experience of the CA coast.
Did you not read the article? :-) Seriously, summers in the city (of San Francisco) can be miserable, at least insofar as your definition of summer includes wearing fewer clothes and dining outdoors. In general the coast of California north of say, Seal Beach, is not an enjoyable place to be after sunset, anywhere. Even in LA it's usually about 60 at the beach in July at night. I've never understood the massive gap between marketing and reality when it comes to the weather in coastal California, despite having spent half my life here.
Medellín, Colombia is the place I have been that comes closest to achieving what California peddles.
July is the start of summer and it takes another month for the cold ocean currents from the north to warm up, keeping Santa Monica cool. An hour inland and it could be 110f. LA has maybe 300 sunny days a year, while Medellin is nowhere near the beach... like 1000km away.
Did you not read the article? :-) Seriously, summers in the city (of San Francisco) can be miserable, at least insofar as your definition of summer includes wearing fewer clothes and dining outdoors. In general the coast of California north of say, Seal Beach, is not an enjoyable place to be after sunset, anywhere. Even in LA it's usually about 60 at the beach in July at night. I've never understood the massive gap between marketing and reality when it comes to the weather in coastal California, despite having spent half my life here.
Medellín, Colombia is the place I have been that comes closest to achieving what California peddles.