Do we underestimate and downplay how Great Sacramento weather really is? (San Diego: epicenter, close to)

[WizardOfRadical]

Even worse, the wild fires are really killing Sacs air quality.

[Chimérique]

Originally Posted by dontbelievehim

Walnut creek gets nice winds pretty much every summer night tho, sac doesnt.
Walnut creek is a solid half a grade higher than sac because of the wind.
The devil is in the details.

Oh Puhaleeze!

But you forgot the other 11 or 12 months of the year.

Walnut Creek 10mph
Sacramento 9mph

[Chimérique]

Originally Posted by WizardOfRadical

Even worse, the wild fires are really killing Sacs air quality.

Even worse, all of Southern Cal has worse air quality than Sacramento.

[sacdukeman]

Originally Posted by Chimérique

Even worse, all of Southern Cal has worse air quality than Sacramento.

Once again, that somewhere else is worse doesn't render Sacto's air "great." We're back to the D vs. F grade analogy.

If the thread title was something like "Sacramento weather isn't that bad," then I would agree, except regarding air quality, where the east part of the Sacto area is consistently among the nation's worse, as the sw breeze blows all the bad stuff up against the higher foothills.

[tstieber]

Originally Posted by dontbelievehim

Walnut creek gets nice winds pretty much every summer night tho, sac doesnt.
Walnut creek is a solid half a grade higher than sac because of the wind.
The devil is in the details.

Depends on which part of town. Downtown WC gets a pretty regular evening sea breeze, but eastern WC where I grew up, near Mt Diablo, doesn't, and there is a definite temperature difference there too in those early evening hours. I personally prefer less wind.

[capoeira]

Originally Posted by Chimérique

Even worse, all of Southern Cal has worse air quality than Sacramento.

Only Los Angeles,Fresno,Visalia and Bakersfield were rated worse than Sacramento! Sacramento has the 5th worst air in the nation. One cannot find a place outside of California with worse air than Sacramento.

https://sacramento.cbslocal.com/vide...rst-in-nation/

https://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2018...one-pollution/

http://www.lung.org/assets/documents...-2018-full.pdf

[sacdukeman]

Originally Posted by capoeira

Only Los Angeles,Fresno,Visalia and Bakersfield were rated worse than Sacramento! Sacramento has the 5th worst air in the nation. One cannot find a place outside of California with worse air than Sacramento.

https://sacramento.cbslocal.com/vide...rst-in-nation/

https://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2018...one-pollution/

http://www.lung.org/assets/documents...-2018-full.pdf

Yep, the American Lung Association agrees, putting Sacto at the 5th worst in the U.S. for ozone and 14th worst for short-term particulate.

Most Polluted Cities - American Lung Association | State of the Air 2015

[Chimérique]

Originally Posted by capoeira

Only Los Angeles,Fresno,Visalia and Bakersfield were rated worse than Sacramento! Sacramento has the 5th worst air in the nation. One cannot find a place outside of California with worse air than Sacramento.

https://sacramento.cbslocal.com/vide...rst-in-nation/

https://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2018...one-pollution/

http://www.lung.org/assets/documents...-2018-full.pdf

There is a huge leap to 5th place. LA and Bakersfield, for example, last I looked, had double and triple the amount of bad air days.

Fresno Metro, for example, has less than HALF the population than the Sac Metro, yet Fresno has TWICE the amount of bad air days.

Also, the Air Quality Management District in Sacramento has much higher standards than many others across the nation; therefore, our amount bad air is higher because of that.

[Chimérique]

Originally Posted by sacdukeman

"Sacramento weather isn't that bad,"

Nationally, So where is the weather "great" and what criteria are you using?

[sav858]

Originally Posted by Chimérique

There is a huge leap to 5th place. LA and Bakersfield, for example, last I looked, had double and triple the amount of bad air days.

Fresno Metro, for example, has less than HALF the population than the Sac Metro, yet Fresno has TWICE the amount of bad air days.

Also, the Air Quality Management District in Sacramento has much higher standards than many others across the nation; therefore, our amount bad air is higher because of that.

The American Lung Association rankings are based on the same standards/measurements.