Do we underestimate and downplay how Great Sacramento weather really is? (Los Angeles: emissions, culture)

[TheGoodUsernamesWereTaken]

Pretty much, just like how the bay area weather is overrated.

[Chimérique]

I hear ya.

[Chimérique]

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[Chimérique]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUdx_UNqT8k

[Flovis]

Sacramento at 24
Fresno at 11
Los Angeles at 16
San Diego 8

One more week of crazy rain, especially in norcal.
Stay safe up there.

[Chimérique]

5 years of drought. This wet year corrects one of those years. So it's like we've had 4 years of drought instead.

If we have two more above-normal wet years, then we are back to average.

BTW, it's raining in Sacramento again and from our South Lake Tahoe cabin it's snowing again. Since 8pm last night until early morning, 1.5 FEET of snow has accumulated on top of my car! in those 8 hours.

Sac Airport 28" inches of rain (rounding up)
Foothills Placerville, Auburn, Foresthill - 45-65 inches (stats are not complete)

Heavenly Ski Resort over 600-625 inches of snow to date.

[ryanthegoldengod]

This thread reminds me of something in Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers. He noted that kids who go to Harvard often feel stupid even though they are exceptionally bright because we tend to only measure ourselves against our immediate neighbors. I get the impression Sacramento folks suffer a similar inferiority complex because the weather isn't quite San Diego or Santa Monica?

If it helps at all, I've lived in New England my whole life and Sacramento weather sounds spectacular to me. 78 percent sunshine? Low humidity? Delta breeze? Average monthly low never gets below 38? No snow? Sign me up for that.

[tstieber]

Originally Posted by ryanthegoldengod

This thread reminds me of something in Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers. He noted that kids who go to Harvard often feel stupid even though they are exceptionally bright because we tend to only measure ourselves against our immediate neighbors. I get the impression Sacramento folks suffer a similar inferiority complex because the weather isn't quite San Diego or Santa Monica?

If it helps at all, I've lived in New England my whole life and Sacramento weather sounds spectacular to me. 78 percent sunshine? Low humidity? Delta breeze? Average monthly low never gets below 38? No snow? Sign me up for that.

Totally! My family came here when I was a little kid from Central Europe, and to me, the idea of complaining about weather that most people would pay good money to vacation in is insane. But as a northern California transplant to San Diego, the way people in-state talk about the Northern California climate, you would think it was like comparing Hawaii and Ohio. In reality, it's like comparing 95th and 99th percentiles and complaining how awful the 95th percentile is. I have family in North Carolina whose fountain is a solid block of ice and icicles this morning, and they still say how lucky they are not to have to live in the snow storms up north! In my birth city back in Germany, they are just now *starting* to get temperatures that Northern California would have in the dead of winter, and they are so excited to call it spring. It just underscores what a bunch of whiners we Californians are, and apparently, we rarely leave State boundaries. I'm glad that you, as a New Englander, understands how lucky all of us are out here where we can pick oranges off the trees.

[Chimérique]

Originally Posted by ryanthegoldengod

This thread reminds me of something in Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers. He noted that kids who go to Harvard often feel stupid even though they are exceptionally bright because we tend to only measure ourselves against our immediate neighbors. I get the impression Sacramento folks suffer a similar inferiority complex because the weather isn't quite San Diego or Santa Monica?

If it helps at all, I've lived in New England my whole life and Sacramento weather sounds spectacular to me. 78 percent sunshine? Low humidity? Delta breeze? Average monthly low never gets below 38? No snow? Sign me up for that.

Yep you get it! Sacramento has great weather! :-)

Regarding your other comment: It's not about feeling inferior or superior; it's about getting the facts rights. But if you have go that route, as a Sacramentan, I don't feel our weather is inferior rather I am told by coastal folks that their weather is superior. But since I'm originally from the coast I can say they are very similar 11 months out of year and for maybe no more than 5 days a year in the summer I feel coastal weather is better.

Also, Central Valley weather is not all the same nor is Coastal weather all the same. The North Coast gets too much rain and most of SoCal Coast doesn't get enough. The North Coast has awesome air quality, and Sacramento's air quality is much better than LA and the San Joaquin Valley. The south coast lacks seasonal variety, and the San Joaquin Valley doesn't get enough rain and is too hot for too long in the summer on a daily basis.

[Flovis]

Where you been at chim? This threads been too quiet lately

Air quality today and tomorrow. Some difference

Fresno 41/58
Sacramento - 40/50
Merced 36/47

Rain totals

32.35 Sacramento
16.74 Fresno
7.43 Bakersfield

One more month of rain possibilities and were done with rain. Thank goodness, I've had enough.

Edit: I forgot today's temps

Fresno 66 @ 4pm
Sacramento 63 @ 4pm