Global warming has rapidly destroyed the appeal of this place
Here's something that I don't think nearly enough people are talking about. Global warming has made the climate of the Humboldt coast almost unrecognizable to what it was like not even that long ago. I wanted to move here because I love the rain and overcast weather, and back in the 90s this is exactly the type of weather you got year-round as it wasn't uncommon for it to sometimes rain for weeks on end, but today it is a very different story. It straight up just doesn't rain here anymore. That's right, in what is widely known as one of the rainiest locations on the planet, a place with an almost comical reputation for rain, it now rains about the same amount as it does in the Central Valley. In the past few years it has become an extreme rarity for it to even rain for more than two consecutive days, and rainstorms have become an event of equal novelty as they are in Stockton. Let that sink in; this situation is DIRE.
My Arcata apartment, which was clearly built with the climate of decades past in mind, is UNBEARABLY hot for at least half the year, and when I say unbearable, I really mean it. It feels like I'm living in some kind of disgusting humid oven if I don't leave the windows open all day. I kid you not it has become a disturbingly common occurrence for the indoor temperature to skyrocket into the 80s on any day when the sun comes out (which seems to be the majority of them nowadays), even if it's only around 65 outside, and there is no AC to remedy this, however there is a heater which I've never had to use even once. I'm really dreading the summer because here I am in early April, sitting in a 78-degree and rapidly climbing room, feeling like my skin is about to melt off. This most recent summer my apartment's indoor temperature reached into the mid-80s almost every day. The outdoor temperature isn't much better, either, as global warming has turned Arcata from boasting a typical cool, overcast Northwestern climate into a situation where it feels like you're walking around in L.A. 50% of the time (which is a conservative estimate, by the way).
I guess I'm just posting this to hear from other locals their experiences regarding the deterioration of coastal Humboldt's formerly lovely climate, and maybe we can have a little digital toast to the end of the world while reminiscing about the good old days.