"Steve Pope" > wrote in message
...
> Christine Dabney > wrote:
>
>>On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 21:55:48 -0700, "Paul M. Cook" >
>
>>>Berkeley can be positively hot in the summer. Not unusual to have high
>>>90s.
>>>Usually the summer days are high 80s and the nights a very pleasant low
>>>60s.
>>Uh, this isn't the Berkeley I know. Those temps that you describe are
>>rare... You sure you are talking about the same place?
>
> I agree with Christine.
>
> September is the warmest month with an average high of 72 F.
> Low-mid 90's is considered unusually hot, and there may be one or
> two dozen days per year that get that high. High 90's is
> positively unusual.
>
> I see though that the record high is 106.
>
> And it will be warmer up in the Berkeley Hills due to the inversion
> layer. Weather statistics tend to be gathered at the post
> office downtown.
>

My mother lives on Hillside Avenue above Cal Berkeley. That is where I have
spent most of my time there.

Paul