Frozen clothes, damp swimsuits — and a house hoser: How Seattle’s un-air-conditioned stay cool

Just 33.7 percent of homes in the Seattle metro area have air conditioning, our FYI Guy Gene Balk reports. One reason: Westerly wind over Puget Sound cools us just enough for most of the summer.

Until it doesn’t.

When people of the Pacific Northwest endure a heat wave, they first, of course, complain. Then they get creative.

Seattle is least air-conditioned metro area in the U.S., census data show. So how do locals keep cool?