Timeline for Why is Sacramento so warm for its latitude?
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| Dec 12, 2014 at 10:41 | answer | added | user889 | timeline score: 8 | |
| Oct 18, 2014 at 14:52 | comment | added | mace | I agree with plannapus. Please write anwsers as anwsers. | |
| Jul 2, 2014 at 16:28 | comment | added | f.thorpe♦ | Don't forget the urban heat island effect too! | |
| Jun 28, 2014 at 14:43 | comment | added | plannapus | @DrewP84 why not adding that as an answer? | |
| Jun 27, 2014 at 1:08 | comment | added | DrewP84 | This image shows air masses in the USA. Continental Polar is the coolest and impacts most locations in the USA at this latitude. Maritime Tropical(year round) and occasionally Continental Tropical(summer)/Maritime Polar(winter) impact Sacramento but never Continental Polar. | |
| Jun 26, 2014 at 22:30 | comment | added | DrewP84 | Redding is even warmer than Sacramento because the city experiences increased warming from foehn winds (simply called "the north wind" locally) and has less interaction with the cooler marine airmass since there are no breaks in the Coastal range that far north. | |
| Jun 26, 2014 at 22:22 | comment | added | DrewP84 | Redding, CA (at the north end of the Sacramento valley) is even warmer in the summer. Low elevation, foehn winds, no continental polar air mass intrusions, placement of the Pacific semi-permanent high pressure, and high pressure retrograding from the Great Basin are the key factors. Temperatures in Sacramento vary greatly depending on the direction of the winds. Onshore flow can drop temperatures by 20+ degrees (the "delta breeze"). Offshore flow in the summer is often triple digits. | |
| Jun 26, 2014 at 19:48 | history | asked | InquilineKea | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
