Rate the Climate: Point Reyes, CA (hot, warm, recorded, temperature)
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This scenic, cliffy peninsula just north of San Francisco sticks out into the Pacific Ocean. It's all national park land; the weather station is at a lighthouse. It is the foggiest place in the lower 48 states of the United States. Summer is considered the worst time of year to visit as it is likely to be covered in fog.
The historical data is only from 1914-1943. I found recent weather data from Point Reyes, but no averages. No sunshine data, but it lists sun energy absorbed, which probably connects well to the amount of sunshine.
Spring looks like it gets more sunshine than summer. Both March 2010 and September recorded more solar radiation than July 2010. January is often warmer than May. Looks like mean July humidity is about 95%! This must be one of the least frost prone places in the country.
I lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for most of my first 45 years. Point Reyes is a beautiful and wonderful place to visit on a clear day if the wind is not blowing too much. I've been hiking there in mid-winter after a storm, in bright sun and calm conditions wearing shorts and a T-shirt. There are canyons near the coast where the trees are covered in moss, similar to what you might see on trees in a rain forest or in a gulf coast bayou. Point Reyes also has extreme micro climates. There is a range of coastal hills that run north to south, and on the inland side of the hills, the temperature in summer can be perhaps 80F in bright warm sun. On the coastal side of the hills, the temp might be just a bit warmer than the ocean temp (around 56F) with a damp wind blowing, pretty miserable. It is an incredible natural surrounding just over an hour north of the Golden Gate Bridge.
I'm going to give it a C. Generally this type of climate would be C+/B- for its lack of frigidity, but having been to the more exposed parts of the coast I know that the fog there isn't the motionless ground fog common elsewhere, but a sea fog that comes in with a stiff, damp breeze. Jacket weather all year round.
The microclimates in that region are quite fasctinating, though. I remember a day where one side of the Golden Gate was sunny and calm, and less than a hundred meters away on the coastal side it was foggy, damp, and windy.
B. Visited it on a clear, mild october day, with moderate wind, temp about 70°F. Very pleasant the day I was there. And no wonder : Point Reyes is right on the 38th parallel (South-central Spain, south Italy)!
I'd love it, I think... I would bring a big flashlight with me
What puts me off a lot of the US and parts of Europe is really hot summers - I just don't like them. Even San Francisco's summers would be too hot for me.
But Point Reyes sounds like great weather to me.. Maybe Eureka also.
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