Do we underestimate and downplay how Great Sacramento weather really is? (Oakland: income, cheaper)

[Chimérique]

5:00am Jan 8, 2016

Truckee, CA - 18F - Gonna be North Shore today for the Ski Day.

Denver - 27F, Feels like 16F

Portland -33F

Sacramento - 36F - Glad we are back to a normal winter, I'm loving this colder and wetter weather.

San Francisco - 47F

San Diego - 52F

Let's get this thread back to it's original intent, SACRAMENTO WEATHER has it compares across the nation.

[terranova]

Originally Posted by Chimérique

A good share of those uneducated immigrants are illegal and not even counted in these rankings, so likely, LA rated as #86 is probably even lower.

Hmmm. Yes, i can see where you're coming from. Those Brain Power surveys of educational attainment (your source of enlightenment) simply weren't able to take into account the illegal immigrants. Or better yet, they only counted them as three-fifths of a person. Brilliant.
The Three-Fifths Clause, the Compromise Over Slavery and Its Lingering Effects - The Root

Yes, let's get back to the weather reporting . . .

[WizardOfRadical]

Why is terranova trolling a weather thread?

[tfriss92]

Originally Posted by Chimérique

If you put Sacramento and it’s weather in any southern, midwestern, or eastern locale across the USA people would rave about our weather.

Sacramento Summer:
Not nearly as hot as we or others exaggerate. During the last heat wave Sacramento was always cooler than anywhere else in the heat dome except for Coastal Cali and the mountains.

The desert southwest (Phoenix, Vegas,) is on average 20-30 degrees warmer during evening and morning hours and averages 10-20 degrees hotter during the day. The south, texas, florida and southwest bake in high humidity all summer long, and all night long.

Midwest and eastern seaboard cities are really humid during the summer - the daytime highs feel a lot warmer over there than our average summer high temps.

A 90 or 100 degree day in Sac feels more like a 80 or 90 degree in the rest of the humid east and south. So by high temps alone Sacramento appears a lot warmer than it is compared to other places.

Sacramento for the most part has cool summer nights and mornings.

A typical Sacramento Summer day is 90 degrees, dry 20% humidity (feels more like 87), with a very cool morning low of 55 degrees. The actual high temp doesn't represent how comfortable the rest of the evening and night temp will be as we cool quickly in the evening COMPARED to most other places across the USA.

How come it cools off so quickly at night and has chilly mornings even in summer is Sacramento near mountains ?

[pistola916]

Originally Posted by tfriss92

How come it cools off so quickly at night and has chilly mornings even in summer is Sacramento near mountains ?

Mountains are 45 minutes-1 hour away. Summer temps cool off in the evening due to the delta breeze that comes from the Pacific Ocean. The Marin air arrives from the SF Bay Area.

[tfriss92]

Is the delta breeze a everyday thing you can feel or is every now and then or in a particular season .

So 45-1hr I can be in the Sierra Nevada mountains , hiking , camping and snowboarding ?

[City-duck]

unfortunately, sacramento has its fair share of chemtrail spraying. Enjoy the nano-particle aluminum induction into your brain and lung cavities. This is why you slowly become dumb and get alzheimer's. What can you do about this besides move away?

[Chimérique]

Originally Posted by tfriss92

How come it cools off so quickly at night and has chilly mornings even in summer is Sacramento near mountains ?

1. Sacramento cools off a lot at night and in the morning not because we are high in elevation as in the mountains, but because the Pacific Ocean which is cold in the summer sends cool air directly to Sacramento. The California current flows from the north, Alaska, to the south towards Mexico. Compared to the Atlantic seaboard (Florida up to Mass.), the Pacific is quite a bit colder.

2.The ocean temp in Nor-Cal is 10-15 degrees on average colder in the summer than in Southern Cal (SoCal). So the cool-cold air can have a dramatic impact on cooling areas inland. The cooling from the ocean in So-Cal has a very small affect on inland areas beyond 30 miles.

3. The dry warm air inland combined with high pressure pulls in the cold moist air from the Nor-Cal Coast and with a large gap in the Coastal Mountain range, the cool air is free to move into Sacramento. This gap is called the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta; it is where the Sacramento river flows into San Pablo and San Francisco Bays into the ocean.

4. The primary wind direction from the SF Bay is in a northwesterly direction, right up the Sacramento River in the Southern Sacramento Valley directly to Sacramento. Sacramento and Stockton receive the most cooling affect. Points further north of Sacramento or points further South of Stockton receive very little relief from the cooling affect.

5. Fresno, does NOT receive this type of cooling as it is 170 miles South from the Sacramento Delta , Nor does Redding 160 miles North of Sacramento. Other areas far inland such as Bakersfield, Fresno, Chico, Redding within the Central Valley are blocked by the coastal mountains. Deserts areas of So-Cal are far too inland and any cool air is "toast" by the time it reaches them.

[Chimérique]

Originally Posted by Chimérique

1. Sacramento cools off a lot at night and in the morning not because we are high in elevation as in the mountains, but because the Pacific Ocean which is cold in the summer sends cool air directly to Sacramento. The California current flows from the north, Alaska, to the south towards Mexico. Compared to the Atlantic seaboard (Florida up to Mass.), the Pacific is quite a bit colder.

2.The ocean temp in Nor-Cal is 10-15 degrees on average colder in the summer than in Southern Cal (SoCal). So the cool-cold air can have a dramatic impact on cooling areas inland. The cooling from the ocean in So-Cal has a very small affect on inland areas beyond 30 miles.

3. The dry warm air inland combined with high pressure pulls in the cold moist air from the Nor-Cal Coast and with a large gap in the Coastal Mountain range, the cool air is free to move into Sacramento. This gap is called the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta; it is where the Sacramento river flows into San Pablo and San Francisco Bays into the ocean.

4. The primary wind direction from the SF Bay is in a northwesterly direction, right up the Sacramento River in the Southern Sacramento Valley directly to Sacramento. Sacramento and Stockton receive the most cooling affect. Points further north of Sacramento or points further South of Stockton receive very little relief from the cooling affect.

5. Fresno, does NOT receive this type of cooling as it is 170 miles South from the Sacramento Delta , Nor does Redding 160 miles North of Sacramento. Other areas far inland such as Bakersfield, Fresno, Chico, Redding within the Central Valley are blocked by the coastal mountains. Deserts areas of So-Cal are far too inland and any cool air is "toast" by the time it reaches them.

CORRECTION:

4.The primary wind direction from the SF Bay is in a northEASTERLY direction, right up the Sacramento River in the Southern Sacramento Valley directly to Sacramento. Sacramento and Stockton receive the most cooling affect. Points further north of Sacramento or points further South of Stockton receive very little relief from the cooling affect.

This Delta Wind blows northeast from SF Bay.
From Sacramento's point of view: the wind/cooling is coming from a SouthWesterly direction.

[the topper]

Originally Posted by Chimérique

1. Sacramento cools off a lot at night and in the morning not because we are high in elevation as in the mountains, but because the Pacific Ocean which is cold in the summer sends cool air directly to Sacramento. The California current flows from the north, Alaska, to the south towards Mexico. Compared to the Atlantic seaboard (Florida up to Mass.), the Pacific is quite a bit colder.

2.The ocean temp in Nor-Cal is 10-15 degrees on average colder in the summer than in Southern Cal (SoCal). So the cool-cold air can have a dramatic impact on cooling areas inland. The cooling from the ocean in So-Cal has a very small affect on inland areas beyond 30 miles.

3. The dry warm air inland combined with high pressure pulls in the cold moist air from the Nor-Cal Coast and with a large gap in the Coastal Mountain range, the cool air is free to move into Sacramento. This gap is called the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta; it is where the Sacramento river flows into San Pablo and San Francisco Bays into the ocean.

4. The primary wind direction from the SF Bay is in a northwesterly direction, right up the Sacramento River in the Southern Sacramento Valley directly to Sacramento. Sacramento and Stockton receive the most cooling affect. Points further north of Sacramento or points further South of Stockton receive very little relief from the cooling affect.

5. Fresno, does NOT receive this type of cooling as it is 170 miles South from the Sacramento Delta , Nor does Redding 160 miles North of Sacramento. Other areas far inland such as Bakersfield, Fresno, Chico, Redding within the Central Valley are blocked by the coastal mountains. Deserts areas of So-Cal are far too inland and any cool air is "toast" by the time it reaches them.

Almost every afternoons, the breeze comes from the ocean to these hot locales:deserts, Central Valley and etc.. It's toast but still moderate the heat in the afternoons: in Needles, CA, 118 at noon and 119 at 4PM. It's a heatwave in Needles but the sea breeze still kicks in after 11:30 to keep the temps. in check.