Do we underestimate and downplay how Great Sacramento weather really is? (Berkeley: season, around)

[Chimérique]

Originally Posted by shelato

In an average summer in Sacramento, how many days should we expect high temps over 100? and over 90?

Average Summer (4 months)

Heat Index: Average
5 to 6 days at 100F or slightly above
35 days in the 90's.
50 days in the 80's

Heat Index:
90F in Texas is a average heat index of 100F.
90F in Sacramento is an average heat index of 88F
100F in Texas is an average heat index 111-112F
100F in Sacramento is an average heat index of 97F

[mixxalot]

At least Texas real estate is affordable.

[WizardOfRadical]

Originally Posted by mixxalot

At least Texas real estate is affordable.

That's cuz no one wants to actually live there. Texas is a place you move to be cause you HAVE to (political, financial, employment), not because you WANT to.

[Chimérique]

The debate continues: which summer is cooler, current year 2019 or last year 2018 thus far. Here are the numbers. Hopefully, no one will "exaggerate", "spin", or "cherry pick" their case.

JULY 2018 - SACRAMENTO

Average High temp was 93F (heat index)
HIGH TEMPS: Number of Days:
Heat Index
80's = 5 days
90's = 25 days
100's = One day (heat index)
(5 days of actual temp at 100 or more)

Average Low temp was 61F
LOW TEMPS: Number of Days:
70's = 1 day
60's = 24 days
50's = 6 days

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July 2019 SACRAMENTO

High Temps, How many days of:
100's - 3 days ( Heat Index only 1 day)
90's - 18 days (Heat Index 17 days)
80's - 10 days (Heat Index 13 days)

Low Temps; How many days:
Not a single day above 66F, always cooled into the 60's and 50's.

Overnight and in the morning, Sacramento never stayed as warm as the 70's, 80's, or 90's like other cities across America; which doesn't mean all other cities, or that all of them stayed as hot as the 80's or 90's.

70's - Zero days
65F to 66F - 2 days
63F to 64F - 6 days
60F to 62F - 13 days
50's - 10 days

[mixxalot]

Sorry but your data is WRONG and flawed

Low Temps; How many days:
Not a single day above 66F, always cooled into the 60's and 50's.

Like this nite it is hot and humid at 10pm!

https://weather.com/weather/today/l/95818:4:US


72°
FAIR
feels like 72°
Humidity
59%
Dew Point
57°

[expatCA]

Originally Posted by WizardOfRadical

That's cuz no one wants to actually live there. Texas is a place you move to be cause you HAVE to (political, financial, employment), not because you WANT to.

Uh, I moved there because I wanted to and politics had nothing to do with it and COL was a non issue. Keep silly political issues on the political forum, where stupidity is rampant.


Sacramento is a city I love, CA as a State not so much (Governance), and TX offers a lot CA does not and CA offers a lot TX does not. People are different and have different interests in life.

[KC6ZLV]

Originally Posted by Majin

I've had this same exact experience many times. It could be literally 85 degrees for weeks, then one heatwave of 2 days of 98 degrees and all of a sudden people recall "man it's been 110 degrees for the past month" even though a few days ago it was 85.

That's one of the things I've never understood about Sacramento. People here insist it is 105 every day and that it is humid. Another thing I don't get is sometime around the middle of August people start posting about "smelling fall in the air." And yet another thing. It seems like people here think almost any meteorological event that occurs here is rare and worth going on about in every forum or social media outlet.

Nutjobs! All of them!

[mixxalot]

Well it is humid compared to normal- not 105 everyday but we've had lots of 90+ days since June.

[jcp123]

Sac feels a lot like Texas in the summer. I’ve done both. If Sac is milder, it isn’t by that much. Sac gets its climate points in the winter, IMHO.

[tstieber]

Originally Posted by shelato

In an average summer in Sacramento, how many days should we expect high temps over 100? and over 90?

According to average NOAA data as per Wikipedia:

On average, there are 73 days where the high exceeds 90 °F (32 °C), and 14 days where the high exceeds 100 °F (38 °C)