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Old 01-03-2015, 11:19 AM
 
Location: On the "Left Coast", somewhere in "the Land of Fruits & Nuts"
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^ Well, you're certainly entitled to your 'opinions', but I've been the one presenting actual data here. So now that "I've shown you mine" (such as it is…lol), let's see yours?!
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Old 01-03-2015, 11:23 AM
 
Location: SW MO
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In my not so humble opinion, Sacramento (lived there for 20 years) is probably underrated. There's a lot more to it than just being close to other areas. For a city it's not too bad.

Now Bakersfield (was stuck there for three years due to my job) deserves its less than glowing reputation. If you've ever read Stephen King's book, It, well, it could have been set in Bakersfield as could Ray Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes.
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Old 01-03-2015, 11:23 AM
 
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^ Having lived in Florida, am well aware what "humid" and "muggy" means! And Sacto definitely gets both high temps and high humidity in the summertime. Though it often cools down a lot by the evening, especially when combined with the breezes flowing in from the Bay Area (which BTW, also carry the smog up into the foothills). So relatively-speaking, yes it'll start to feel a lot cooler at night… kinda the same way your head stops hurting when you quit banging it against the wall!

Sacramento daily high & low temperatures
You obviously seem to have Florida weather in your head which is nothing like Bay Area-Sacramento weather.

Generally, in NorCall, in the summer, high humidity means relief and comfort because humidity is coming from the COLD PACIFIC unlike the warm atlantic as in florida.

When it is 83% humidity in Sacramento during the summer; 99% of the time, the temperature is 55-65F, when it is above 90F, 99% of the time Sacramento's humidity is 10-20%.

Sacramento gets high heat and high humidity in the Summer, BUT SACRAMENTO DOES NOT GET high heat and high humidity at the same time.

In the summer, in Sacramento, when the humidity is high the temperature is cool and comfortable.
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Old 01-03-2015, 11:27 AM
 
Location: On the "Left Coast", somewhere in "the Land of Fruits & Nuts"
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^ So you say…. now prove it (unless we're claiming "native entitlement"… again)!
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Old 01-03-2015, 11:31 AM
 
Location: SW MO
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Sacramento gets high heat and high humidity in the Summer, BUT SACRAMENTO DOES NOT GET high heat and high humidity at the same time.

In the summer, in Sacramento, when the humidity is high the temperature is cool and comfortable.
Could have fooled me, and I've never lived in Florida, just Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, Virginia, Texas and twice in three of them. I have a pretty good idea of what humidity feels like and Sacramento can decidedly be humid at times.
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Old 01-03-2015, 11:38 AM
 
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^ Well, you're certainly entitled to your 'opinions', but I've been the one presenting actual data here. So now that "I've shown you mine" (such as it is…lol), let's see yours?!
Your data shows only what the overall humidity is for a 24hour period on average which leaves out very important information about the comfort level and temperature at any given hour of the day.

Sacramento, often, in the summer, will have high humidity readings but they come when the temperatures are COOL AND COMFORTABLE.

Your graphs don't show that in Sacramento it will be 90F with 10% humidity. Yes, the humidity may jump to 80% later that night and morning, but the temperature will have also plummeted to 55-65F degrees.
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Old 01-03-2015, 11:45 AM
 
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Could have fooled me, and I've never lived in Florida, just Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, Virginia, Texas and twice in three of them. I have a pretty good idea of what humidity feels like and Sacramento can decidedly be humid at times.
Than you have nothing to compare it to. The humidity that CA gets ANYWHERE on occasion isn't even close to how comfortable it gets in the south, and especially FL most of the year.

In fact it is non existent in comparison.

Southern humidity is like walking into your bathroom fully dressed after the shower has been running on hot for 10 minutes.

It's almost comical when people in CA complain about how every once in awhile it gets a little sticky, they have no idea what real humidity and heat is like. Where it is 1am and it still 85 degrees and the humidity is at 90%.
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Old 01-03-2015, 11:49 AM
 
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Your data shows only what the overall humidity is for a 24hour period on average which leaves out very important information about the comfort level and temperature at any given hour of the day.

Sacramento, often, in the summer, will have high humidity readings but they come when the temperatures are COOL AND COMFORTABLE.

Your graphs don't show that in Sacramento it will be 90F with 10% humidity. Yes, the humidity may jump to 80% later that night and morning, but the temperature will have also plummeted to 55-65F degrees.
And there in lies the difference. In FL it will be 90 degrees for a high and drop down to 82 for low at night, so little relief temp wise along with the high humidity.

The beauty of CA is that once the sun starts to go down, the temperature drops by quite a bit.
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Old 01-03-2015, 11:54 AM
 
Location: SW MO
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Than you have nothing to compare it to.
Oh, I don't know. Lived in California (I'm a native) for about 50 of my 68 years and Sacramento for 20 of them. Rather foolish of you to make such an inaccurate statement, don't you think?

Granted, Sacramento's humidity somewhat pales in comparison to the deep South's but I was responding to another inaccurate statement that it just doesn't happen. In 11 years of walking to and from work, up to two miles each way, including summers, I got a pretty good feel for whether there was or was not humidity in the air. At times, there decidedly was.
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Old 01-03-2015, 12:06 PM
 
Location: Sierra Nevada Land, CA
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Oh, I don't know. Lived in California (I'm a native) for about 50 of my 68 years and Sacramento for 20 of them. Rather foolish of you to make such an inaccurate statement, don't you think?

Granted, Sacramento's humidity somewhat pales in comparison to the deep South's but I was responding to another inaccurate statement that it just doesn't happen. In 11 years of walking to and from work, up to two miles each way, including summers, I got a pretty good feel for whether there was or was not humidity in the air. At times, there decidedly was.
For Example: Where I live the Humidity will be 70% at 6AM. Temp 50* in the summer. By 2PM it may be 90* and 15% humidity.

Perhaps everyone here is right.
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