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Old 08-12-2015, 11:04 PM
 
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Originally Posted by enigma99a View Post
It might be better to compare Sacramento's weather to some place with a similar latitude. Like Kansas City, St Louis, Nashville, Virginia Beach, etc.
You read my mind because I am going to do that. I've been posting western cities mostly because we(Sacramento) are in the west, and because most western cities have heat indices temps that are lower than actual temps, and it is a lot of work to adjust for heat index temps where the heat index is hotter than the actual temp.

Notice how I've included one such city in the south-southwest, Austin, Tx. Austin is typical of how humidity and uncomfortable dew points increase the heat index. Also, because the Austin metro is almost the same size as the Sacramento metro, for like comparison.
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Old 08-12-2015, 11:16 PM
 
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8/12/2015 445pm

Humidity
Sacramento - 16%
Phoenix - 18%
Las Vegas - 26%
This fits with my prior post. Late Spring-Early summer, Phoenix would 5-10%, Las Vegas would be 10-15%, and Sacramento averages 15-20% humidity at the warmest time of the day.

Another comforting factor for Sacramento is that by night and morning Sacramento's humidity increases into the 40-70% range so there is moisture in the air and when it is 60's or high 50's, which is normal for Sac then it is more comforting than having bone dry humidities as in Vegas and Phoenix.

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Old 08-12-2015, 11:25 PM
 
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Aug 12, 2015, 10:00pm at night

Phoenix: 97F-heat index (37%)
Austin: 94-heat index, (60%)
Vegas: 94F (27%)

Fresno: 83F (33%)
Portland: 82-heat index (49%)

Stockton: 73F (57%)
Sacramento: 71F (60%) - same humidity as Austin, but Sacramento is 23 degrees cooler.
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Old 08-17-2015, 08:53 PM
 
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Originally Posted by Chimérique View Post
Aug 12, 2015, 10:00pm at night

Phoenix: 97F-heat index (37%)
Austin: 94-heat index, (60%)
Vegas: 94F (27%)

Fresno: 83F (33%)
Portland: 82-heat index (49%)

Stockton: 73F (57%)
Sacramento: 71F (60%) - same humidity as Austin, but Sacramento is 23 degrees cooler.
8/17/2015

8 PM

Sac: 97
Phx: 102
Vegas: 106
Palm Springs: 99

Austin: 87
San Jose: 81
Portland: 85
Dallas: 88
LA: 75

Don't be fooled by the biased locals on here who post temperatures between 10 pm - 6 am when no one is awake. For the majority of the summer (June - Sept) Sac is unbearably hot.
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Old 08-17-2015, 09:06 PM
 
Location: Northern California
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8/17/2015

8 PM

Sac: 97
Phx: 102
Vegas: 106
Palm Springs: 99

Austin: 87
San Jose: 81
Portland: 85
Dallas: 88
LA: 75

Don't be fooled by the biased locals on here who post temperatures between 10 pm - 6 am when no one is awake. For the majority of the summer (June - Sept) Sac is unbearably hot.
I agree. Sac's summer weather is overrated and I grew up here. It's still not outrageous like Vegas and Phoenix but anything over 90 is too warm for me, anyway.
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Old 08-18-2015, 12:28 AM
 
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Originally Posted by HILife09 View Post
8/17/2015

8 PM

Sac: 97
Phx: 102
Vegas: 106
Palm Springs: 99

Austin: 87
San Jose: 81
Portland: 85
Dallas: 88
LA: 75

Don't be fooled by the biased locals on here who post temperatures between 10 pm - 6 am when no one is awake. For the majority of the summer (June - Sept) Sac is unbearably hot.
It's also August; it's supposed to be hot, like 80% of the rest of the nations large metros are as hot or hotter.

No it is not unbearably hot, and there is nothing biased about reporting facts.

Austin 97F heat index
Dallas 98F heat index

Austin and Dallas - you can add at least 10 degrees to the temp for heat index (feels like temp).

I'v been in LA, Venice Beach to be precise for the last week, LA and the coastal Southland, the land of perfect weather.

Venice beach has been 69F-82F (morning-69-71F), (daytime highs 80-82F), no low clouds, no marine layer, until tonight, first day in a week that low clouds moved in this evening, but it was still 78F, water temp 71F, perfect. The surf has been very very light. A California Seal was swimming right among us (30 or so surfers and swimmers) he was playing in the waves right beside us, no more the 50 yards from the beach. Very cool!

We went inland to the Greek Theater(Los Feliz-Griffith Park) which is north central LA in the East Hollywood Hills for a concert and it was 10 degrees warmer than the beach (about 15 miles inland from the beach).

Took a fishing charter out of Marina del Rey (LA), the seas were very very light, Dolphin pods at least 50 Dolphins in several different pods were being playful and swimming at the surface along the edge of the bow. Very cool!
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Old 08-18-2015, 12:31 AM
 
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I agree. Sac's summer weather is overrated and I grew up here. It's still not outrageous like Vegas and Phoenix but anything over 90 is too warm for me, anyway.
You are funny no one "overrates" Sacramento's weather, if anything they under rate it, especially if they are from the Bay Area or anywhere on the coast where it barely goes above 80F.
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Old 08-18-2015, 09:14 AM
 
Location: Nevada City, California
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Gorgeous refreshing morning! Just finished a walk and heading out for a bike ride. It's 64 degrees at 8:15 am now.
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Old 08-19-2015, 04:44 PM
 
Location: Folsom
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Shaver Lake was delightful last week (other than the smoke from 2 different fires), daytime temps running in the 80's but hot enough to enjoy lake activites,.... and then, I returned to 100+ degrees here in Folsom. Thankfully, today is cooler & I had the windows open for most of the day, and there is a nice little breeze out there.
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Old 08-31-2015, 01:53 PM
 
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Pretty typical August for Sacramento

August ends and September begins without a scorcher | The Sacramento Bee
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