Do we underestimate and downplay how Great Sacramento weather really is? (San Diego: conditions, supply)

[Chimérique]

Originally Posted by Radical347

I agree with this -- Bay Area news stations don't really focus on weather outside of their area, of which Sac is just barely outside. I'd imagine it's the same case in most places.

When talking to people in general here in the bay, Sac being too hot comes up fairly often but it's not really said in a mocking way, people are just stating it as their opinion.

I used to live in SF, and I have family and friends who live there. Bay area news stations report Sacramento weather forecasts, regularly, I least when I lived there they did, and recently while at my friends house in Santa Clara they gave the forecast for Sacramento.

Bay Area news will show the Sacramento/ "Central Valley" forecast, but the only time they actually "talk about" Sacramento weather is when we are having a heat wave which averages 7-12 days out of 365 days out of the year. Sacramento actually has a REAL summer like much of the rest of the USA.

Bay area news seem to ignore that Sacramento weather is near identical to the half of the East Bay and half of North Bay 12 months out of the year.

There is no other metro area in the USA that matches the East Bay and North Bay weather as closely as Sacramento accounting for the whole year, both high and low temps, rainfall amounts, and the amount of inclement weather. For example, Sacramento, Walnut Creek, Concord, Santa Rosa, Napa are all share the same climate with Sacramento.

Bay Area news also doesn't understand that the near 500 mile long Central Valley is not all the same. For example, the Sacramento Valley is in a DIFFERENT CLIMATE ZONE/CATEGORY than the San Joaquin Valley.

[Chimérique]

This past wet season is an good example of the difference between the Sacramento Valley and San Joaquin Valley climate zones.

Sacramento Valley - Redding: 42.43 inches of rain
San Joaquin Valley - Bakersfield: 7.80 inches of rain

The Central Valley is near 500 miles long; that's like going from:

Pittsburg, PA, in the north, 40.45 N latitude
to
Chattanooga, TN, in the south, 35.07 N latitude

Compare with:
Redding, CA, in the north, 40.58 N latitude - Sacramento Valley
to
Bakersfield, CA, in the south, 35.05 N latitude - San Joaquin Valley

[MrJester]

Chimerique, would you say that you hardly need to use the air conditioning during Sacramento summers?

I challenge you and everyone else here to try living through the next week without turning on the air conditioning for a single moment at their house. Only ceiling fans allowed.

Bonus points if you can live through the next week here without a single moment of turning on AC in your car.

[sacdukeman]

Another awful north wind day yesterday, with lingering dryness today. Sucked the moisture out of everything and blew leaves and dust all over the place. One 15 ft. branch came down! That north wind is Sacto's Achilles' Heel - get rid of that and things here would be decent.

[sacdukeman]

Originally Posted by MrJester

Chimerique, would you say that you hardly need to use the air conditioning during Sacramento summers?

I challenge you and everyone else here to try living through the next week without turning on the air conditioning for a single moment at their house. Only ceiling fans allowed.

Bonus points if you can live through the next week here without a single moment of turning on AC in your car.

SMUD's new triple charge pm rates may give her incentive to avoid AC.

[Chimérique]

Originally Posted by MrJester

Chimerique, would you say that you hardly need to use the air conditioning during Sacramento summers?

I challenge you and everyone else here to try living through the next week without turning on the air conditioning for a single moment at their house. Only ceiling fans allowed.

Bonus points if you can live through the next week here without a single moment of turning on AC in your car.

Between Sacramento's wonderfully cool evenings, nights, and morning and the use of a whole house you can dramatically reduce the usage of your A/C. But I would not live without A/C because you will need it from time to time.

I've already used mine twice in the last week or two, but only for 1 hour or two for total maybe 3 to 4hours thus far.

Jester, It's about how often you have to use it and if there are the times of the day or night when you do not need it, or you can live without it.

[dontbelievehim]

What is this north wind? Is that the dry/hot wind that heats up Redding during the summer?
It can heat up sac, too?

It was windy out here in Fresno 2-3 days ago and it felt amazing. Our wind came from the bays(Monterey/SF) tho, not Reno/redding, so it was nice and chilly.

If you work late in sac, I bet you barely need AC. Sac isn't the city to be attacking over ac usage, me thinks

[dontbelievehim]

Last 100f day of 2018

Sacramento - August 18
Fresno - September 8
Riverside - September 27
Vegas - September 28
Phoenix - September 29

[sacdukeman]

Originally Posted by dontbelievehim

Last 100f day of 2018

Sacramento - August 18
Fresno - September 8
Riverside - September 27
Vegas - September 28
Phoenix - September 29

All those cities are much farther south. Also, typically Sacto gets to 100 in Sept, sometimes even in Oct.

[Chimérique]

Originally Posted by dontbelievehim

It was windy out here in Fresno 2-3 days ago and it felt amazing. Our wind came from the bays(Monterey/SF) tho, not Reno/redding, so it was nice and chilly.

In the last 3 days Sacramento very comfortable cool winds and very comfortable almost temps. The cool winds came from the Southwest.