<p>California is hot because as Katy Perry would say, </p>
<p>“California girls, we’re unforgettable
Daisy Dukes, bikinis on top
Sun-kissed skin, so hot will melt your popsicle
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
California girls, we’re undeniable
Fine, fresh, fierce, we got it on lock
West coast represent, now put your hands up”</p>
<p>Sorry I couldn’t help myself. x]</p>
<p>In Texas, it was 103+ for a week, and now for the past three days, it’s been 73. In July. I’m so confused.</p>
<p>That’s funny because a friend of mine from California has always insisted how terribly hot their summers are all the time. Maybe it’s just where she is, but 75-90 sounds perfect to me, especially when there’s no humidity!</p>
<p>Here in the south it’s terrible because usually the humidity is just miserable. Sometimes you walk outside and it’s like you can’t breath :(</p>
<p>But the past few days have been AMAZING! 100% better than June was, lol!</p>
<p>Because it is? ???</p>
<p>In many parts of California it is hot. We don’t have wildfires because people are committing arson. Some start on their own.</p>
<p>^^ Dry heat is not as bad as wet heat. LMAO</p>
<p>I would rather stand in 100 degree dry heat than 90 degree weather with a lot of humidity.</p>
<p>“We don’t have wildfires because people are committing arson. Some start on their own.”</p>
<p>Source please. I’ll give you dryness as contributing, but heat? How often is THAT the issue?</p>
<p>“Highs of 73, 71 and 70 today at UCLA, UCSB and UCSD respectively. It was cooler (even overcast) earlier in the week.” </p>
<p>That sounds so perfect.</p>
<p>People who say it have probably never lived there. In tv, movies, music, etc CA always looks bright and sunny and there’s never an absense of girls in bikinis. So I guess the conclusion is California=sun=hot. I must admit to have thought the same thing myself before people told me otherwise.</p>
<p>@Shrinkrap.</p>
<p>I don’t need to provide you a source. Do some research or something. There are many sources.</p>
<p>Wildfires are natural. Furthermore, they are a natural part of southern California’s ecosystem and the chaparral (biome) native to the state relies on fire to germinate its seeds. The hills have been burning long before anyone ever settled in California. It’s natural. </p>
<p>I’m not going to be bothered with providing you a source. Go research it for yourself.</p>
<p>I did ( searching for causes of wildfires in California), but thanks for your input. I live near some chaparral in a pretty hot part of California. I realize you are too busy to help.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.ucar.edu/news/backgrounders/wildfires.shtml[/url]”>http://www.ucar.edu/news/backgrounders/wildfires.shtml</a></p>
<p>from inland san diego. constantly 90-100 during the summer. live in washington now.</p>
<p>NastyPolitician- you’re not 100% correct. It’s a combination of the ‘dry’ and the winds that makes them spread, but the heat is not the actual cause.</p>
<p>In the SoCal’s most recent, really really bad wildfires in 2007, they were caused by several different factors (there was more than 1, btw, but they were just at the same time).</p>
<p>Some non-natural sources:
<p>I’m too lazy to do anything other than wikipedia cite this, so here you go: [October</a> 2007 California wildfires - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_2007_California_wildfires]October”>October 2007 California wildfires - Wikipedia) wiki has it’s own citations. </p>
<p>And, seeing as how the fires literally got within 3 blocks of my house, I can say I know a thing or two about the wildfires in SoCal.</p>
<p>Thank you.</p>
<p>yeah, those of us who lived through 2003 and 2007 know a bit about wildfires. certainly more than somebody who’s never stepped foot in California.</p>
<p>And don’t forget Oakland in '91.</p>
<p>Right now in Orange County, by the beach, it is 62 degrees and foggy (typical June gloom). I went to Texas last week and it was above 100. It was even hotter at night in Texas that it was during the day in Orange County. California isn’t hot compared to other parts of the country.</p>
<p>Normally, it warms up a lot right before the 4th of July, but it most likely has stayed cooler because we had an El Nino year. From after the 4th and until mid-September, it stays in the 80s around the coast, but go 3 miles inland and it will get close to 100.</p>
<p>The wildfires are a natural part of the chaparral biome (it’s how the brush and vegetation re-seeds). They are caused by dry air. We have our worst fires during Santa Ana Winds because they bring in dry air from the desert. The brush gets dried out and it only takes a small ignition source (a cigarette, flare, campfire that was not properly extinguished, etc…) to cause a huge fire. The heat just comes along with the Santa Ana’s and is not responsible for the fires.</p>
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<p>You really don’t know until you’ve lived through a Southeast/EC summer. I’ve been to Arizona and California to experience those 110-120 days. When I heard that the temperature was up to 119 I was shocked. Because it didn’t seem that hot to me. 95 and humid is way worse. You can’t escape the heat. With dry heat you are fine as long as you’re under shade or inside.</p>
<p>They think it’s hot because what they know is that in California (in most places) you can dress like it’s summer practically all year long. To them, this means it is always hot there.</p>
<p>This year has been pretty mild so far (fingers crossed) but I clearly remember summers where it would average 100 degrees for 3 months straight. The central valley is pretty damn hot and we get very little precipitation. Usually, summer weather starts in early April and goes on until mid-September. Terrible stuff I tell you. At least it’s a dry heat though, not like those sticky Houston summers…</p>
<p>Its hotter in Pennsylvania than it is in Cali.</p>