Waimea vs. Redding

[RWood]

Originally Posted by FirebirdCamaro1220

They are both fairly cloudy and rainy in the winter, I spend alot of time in California, and in the winter, once I get north of the Grapevine, I don't see much sun in the winter. Bakersfield, Fresno, Madera, Sacramento, the Bay Area, all fairly cloudy and rainy. And Sacramento and Redding see bouts of Tule Fog in the winter as well

And that 88% is based on very high winter % values - clearly nonsensical. I found the old link, but it doesn't work now. It left me in no doubt that the Redding data is bad.

//www.city-data.com/forum/weath...redding-3.html

Link was in that thread.

[American Expat]

Even though I do like Redding's climate, I vote Waimea which seems pretty fantastic to me.

[deneb78]

Waimea easily

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Originally Posted by Blind Cleric

Waimea's climate isn't so easy to identify because there are two sides of the story: Dry side vs. Wet side.
Within a couple miles you will see a transition from practically desert conditions to lush greenery.

Dunno, but the yearly mean rainfall given in the link looks like an average of the two.

A good feature of Waimea is that it never seems hot or especially humid, because of the elevation.
A bad feature is that it's usually windy.

I haven't been to Redding, so can't definitively say, but in general I would vote for Hawaii.

Oh wow you're right; I didn't realize that there was a significant gradient in average rainfall over the town. It can almost be seen on Google Maps.