The Thing I Don’t Like About Sacramento
Like many Sacramento area residents, my wife and I are Bay Area transplants. We moved here from Cupertino in 1996, and for the most part, I haven’t regretted that decision. At the time, homes cost less than the do now — believe it or not — and they cost a LOT less than in the Bay Area. Since then, homes have gone up enough to become unaffordable here, and they’ve since come down quite a bit, though they haven’t reached 1996 standards.
Our decision to move to Sacramento because we could afford a home out here led to owning a couple of dogs. I like that. Man’s best friend and all.
The thing I don’t like about Sacramento, though, is the weather in July and August. As I write this, for example, Weather Underground tells me that it’s 97.5 degrees in Sacramento (95.5 degrees where I live in Cameron Park). Today’s forecast tells us that we’ll get up to 101 to 107.
Note for you folks out of the country: We use Fahrenheit here. 101 to 107 is pretty darned hot, but it’s not over the boiling point of water here. Honest.
Sacramento’s average high temperatures for July and August are a bit balmier than that — 94 degrees in July and 93 degrees in August.
Those of you who’ve lived on the humid east coast may find those numbers alarmingly high, but they’re not too bad given the dryness out here.
In contrast, 107 degrees pretty much is too darned hot either way.
The bright side:
- I don’t live in Phoenix.
- August is almost half over.
