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I rather think worrying about feeding a furnace in Pittsburgh is a bit overblown.

A few stats:

Average temperature: 52F

Annual high temperature: 61.4F

Average annual precipitation - rainfall: 34.8 inch

Annual low temperature: 42.6F

And snow ??

Snowfall is 27 inches. The average US city gets 26 inches of snow per year.

On average, there are 160 sunny days per year in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The July high is around 84 degrees. The January low is 22. Sperling's comfort index for Pittsburgh is a 52 out of 100, where a higher score indicates a more comfortable year-around climate. The US average for the comfort index is 54.

So, pretty much an average climate, with a much lower cost-of-living than the Bay Area.

My personal experience living there

You're bringing anecdotes to a data fight? You of all people should know better. The discussion was not about your "personal experience". It was about the average temperature in San Francisco. And we have that data right here:

https://www.usclimatedata.com/...

Texans would call 76 room temperature

You know, you've come to the right place. Until moving to the California Central Coast five weeks ago, I lived in Houston, Texas. They do not call 76 room temperature there. Air conditioning in homes and offices is almost always set between 68 and 72. And yes, that's my "personal experience". People bring sweaters to work with them in Houston. Windows in new homes do not open.

Good job on googling "facts" though, thanks for the laugh.

Are you suggesting that usclimatedata has somehow been doctored just to make you look foolish? Why the scare quotes around "facts"? Do you believe it's fake news?

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I'll help educate you! In North America, the weather is freezing for several months of the year

Your condescension is matched only by your ignorance:
http://www.usclimatedata.com/c...

Oh, and btw:
http://www.weatheronline.co.uk...

Oh look. Europe also has a varied climate, heavily influenced by latitude.

First, Oroville, California, gets 52 inches of rain per year. NOT a desert.

According to US climate data 30.7 inches of precipitation per year
http://www.usclimatedata.com/c...
which is about 20% less than the national average
https://rainfall.weatherdb.com...

Still: not a desert.

Nonsense. I lived in Reno many years ago. It's "high desert" - summertime extreme highs are in the low 90's, and it cools down to low 70's at night. The humidity is low year-round, as is precipitation. Sunshine is abundant. Linky. As to your slander of the residents, perhaps you should have spent more time hanging out with people NOT in the casino industry.

I have sent you a link about Germany, as actually live here.
A random usa web page about solar power is certainly far less credible :)
And, well, you can google yourself.

However, a simple thought experiment: a day has 24 hours. That is over the course of a year more or less exactly 12h daytime and 12h night time. Lets cut the 'useful' daytime to 8h, losing 2h dawn and dusk each.

How the heck should it be possible that you only get 2.5h sun put of 8h 'daylight'?

If you want english links out of germany, google for fraunhofer institute :)

But dream on with such stupid american links, no wonder that country is not going forward if they believe in such nonsense.

That american article mentions Hamburg as a cloudy city and claims 2.5h sun oer day: the link I gave you previously gives Hamburg in 2013 1500h sun per year, that is 4.10h per day :) This link shows in the upper table second column from the right 'Sonnenschein' (sunshine) the sun per month in this year in Hamburg: http://www.wetterkontor.de/de/...
In June that was 8.66h per day ... going down to only roughly 1h in January (which was indeed extremely cloudy this year) Rhe average this year for Hamburg will likely be in the 5.5h per day range again.

I don't really want to know what else is wrong with that "solarenergy-usa" link when they are not even able to assess public available _undisputeable_ data. Perhaps they only typoed and wanted to write 5.5h for Germany, because 5.5h for California sounds unreasonable low ... it should be minimum 7h. Perhaps the one who typed that article simply picked two wrong rows (off by one) from his data sheet?

Ah, that was easy to figure: http://www.usclimatedata.com/c...
You see, their numbers for California are wrong as well :)

(* flex *)

Sure, if you think 10.4 inches yearly average is a lot. East side of the state's actually quite arid; the west side is quite soggy in the Coast Range and seaside but the Willamette Valley where most of the population lives isn't exceptionally rainy, it's that it's subject to never-ending spells of overcast weather; other parts of the country actually have higher annual precipitation.