Comments by "Eric Astier" (@ericastier1646) on "Why Summers in San Francisco Are So Cold and Foggy" video.

@mrparts Ahaha i lived 5 years in Austin, the greatest thing was the super high blue skies but the oven weather was relentless and heat wave every summer unpleasant summers which last a 5 months. I now live on the East coast where nature is green and forest means dark shades and big hardwood trees. Here summers are less hot but more humid and skies aren't as beautifully blue but fall and winter have a real flavor to them and Spring is beautiful.
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@Monaleenian Wow so you don't get the warmth of the sun but still get blasted by UV rays ?
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When i graduated in 1999 i job interviewed in California and visited SF. I would have moved there but Intel did not extend a job offer. It was a mistake on their side, to this day i think i would have been a key employee. But there is nepotism going on in sillicon valley where many Indians worked there and wanted their own, not a white guy. All other places wanted to hire me and i ended up in Texas, Austin. There, the summers were spectacular very high blue skies but I didn't like the lack of seasons, the dust and lack of plants and the dead nature and lukewarm false winters. I ended up in the East coast with 4 real seasons.
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@ldfreitas9437 SF has neighborhood micro climates. It could snow on one end only.
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That's a fair point, i never thought of it, the closer to the equator the less the incidence of earth tilt causing seasons. If you grew up in four seasons it's magical because each season is different. It's like travelling without going to a different place. I discovered subtropical weather as an adult and while it's nice to have sunshine most of the year, i found it depressing in the cold season were it's still warm and you never get the fresh, dense, invigorating cold air which is a blessing. Somehow the cold gives a special value to life.
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Unfortunately SF is now capital of the world of homs : homeless and the homos.
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@MaxM227 Which do you like more the mist with a heavy blanket of fog near your house or the clear sky and sun ? I visited SF in 1999, 2003, 2005, 2008, 2011. From the very first time I was bewitched by the surreal mysterious weather and the fresh marine air. I also ate the best food in random restaurants. I like the spanish new world mission style and anything and wanted to move to SF. I was actually there to interview with Intel in 1999 but to my surprise they didn't extend an offer to me, neither did AMD. I was a top student and got offers elsewhere. To be honest i am quite sure, the dominant Indian and Asian engineers population in the valley both immigrants themselves were racially biased against a European immigrant like me that wasn't american. They wanted immigrants from their origins, especially the Indians i think. Now even if had the opportunity i would absolutely no longer want to move there because it has become the center of ideologies that are degenerate, morbid and nefarious for society and families.
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@MaxM227 I am pleasantly surprised i expected i would get a liberal fanatic reply cooked by the media unware of its own totalitariasism from someone from SF, but it is not the case. The problem is that vocal and active woke minorities often determine what is decided and what becomes tyrannic thinking to the majority. I see you recognize the problem with the medias but i think it is much more endemic and implicititly defaulted to by a parasite financial minority who prints currency and delivers power only to those who serve their ideological madness which is mass manipulation.
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@SS-yj2le Everytime I see native californians showing what they think is green nature, i see a desert with water dried plants. I consider California to be a desert except on the coast.
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@jr3753 I've been to Greece, Spain and Italy and also South California. The desert ecosystem consists of cacti and lack of trees. I've seen that in Socal but not in the above mediteranean countries that produce olive oil. Yes parts of cali is agricultural but a large surface of the state is desert.
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@jr3753 15 km inland from the coast represent only a small % of california, the rest is a desert except some parts. Comparing to Europe doesn't quite work because the mediteranean is more of a coast parallel to latitude while cali is parallel to longitude and deep inland in Arizona is a real desert while deep inland europe is not.
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@jr3753 that's right 15 km or less is how deep the ocean wheather microclimate extends inland. Deeper and it transforms to desert. I know californians dislike beeing told they live in a desert.
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@SS-yj2le It comes down to what you define as desert. Arid areas like dry shrubs, yellow grassland with scrubs, dry sparsely tree populated areas, although not literally desert is still akeen to a desert characterized by very low rainfull. If you include these then California is mainly an arid desertic land. As for the agricultural region it relies on fluvial canals waterways and would still be a desert without the culture. If you have lived in regions of the wolrd where the wild grass and plants are naturally green all year through then California is a very arid place, mostly a desert.
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@SS-yj2le Yellow grassland is an indicator of low accumulated rainfalls. The great plain is a semi arid place, most of california is arid. Yellow grass is a sign of aridity. Most california trees are not hardwood but pines due to low precipitations. Woodland is not dense forest. 75% of california's rain occurs in the northern 1/3 of the state. California is heavily water engineered to bring that water to all arid and desert regions. The central valley agriculture area is entirely artificially created by non local water that comes from mountain to the east and canals, reservoirs, aqueducs. If you open a google map and switch to satellite view at first a large portion of the central region appears green but as you zoom in you see it is from 100% parcelized farming agriculture. Immediately next to any of it is sand colored arid land. So in fact the central valley is a desert with no precipitation crossed by rivers turned to artificial crop fields. The only part of the state that is not strictly arid or semi arid are two areas shaped like arms in far north cal and even viewing those is at best mediteranean continent woodland. That does not account for microclimates along the coast where even rain forest exist but those are due to the ocean cold currents and very limited. Socal is a real desert and its metropoles wouldn't exist without the California water project and the colorado river. Regular wildfires season show the dryness of land. In summary once you ignore the coastal microclimate and its fog humidity or rainfall, and the eastern mountains snow that source rivers, and the most northern two arms of the state, you are left with a semi arid, arid and desert land only covering 70% of the land. By far most people in california live in an arid climate with harsh sun and complete lack of natural patches of green grass fields.
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While great, there certainly is plenty of room for improvements.
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