With rising temps, it may be time to rethink your relationship with the AC

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With rising temps, it may be time to rethink your relationship with the AC

With temperatures rising, developers may have to consider making AC the new California norm as they rethink how they build the next generation of homes.

Customer Service Associate Doug Ferket talks to a customer on the phone regarding available in-window air conditioners at the Lowe's home improvement store August 2, 2006 in Arlington Heights, Illinois.

With temperatures rising, developers may have to consider making AC the new California norm as they rethink how they build the next generation of homes.

Southern California might have a respite from the heat wave today, but it'll be in the high 80s and low 90s for the week ahead.

Not as hot, but perhaps you're still thinking of getting an air conditioner if you don't have one?

AC isn't a common sight in many homes in Southern California. Many of them didn't even need one for decades.

But if extreme temperatures become the norm, is it time to rethink of how we build our houses?

Chris Nichols, architecture guru and Southern California historian for LA Magazine, talks about how a changing climate might make people in SoCal rethink how they live.