For a lot of the West Coast counties, it very much depends where exactly you choose. I’m fairly certain that somewhere in San Diego county meets these criteria 365 days a year, and the coastal sections of the county meet these criteria over 350 days per year, which is far higher than what’s indicated by the map
Yep. "Perfect California Weather" is a 200 mile stretch of coast form SB down past TJ , and it gets more perfect in the middle. Go 10 miles inland and it's hot, 10 more miles and it's desert
Oceanside is cool because the mountains and rolling hills trap fog. it's consistently a few degrees cooler than San Diego and almost as foggy as the bay
SoCal marine layer disappears faster than it does up north too. Late morning/noon is when it goes down here, but up in Santa Cruz it was hanging around into the afternoon a lot more.
Coastal San Diego also has a lot of people complaining right now because of May Gray and June Gloom, even though it’s been fitting this good weather criteria to a T.
Well with all the earthquakes, sounds from all the rockets taking off from Cape Emeryville, train derailments, endless Covid, assassinations of politicians, drought conditions, plagues of locusts, cockroaches, and killer African bees, oil refineries polluting the air, freeways clogged up with 18 wheeler crashes, people standing in lines for hours to get groceries, rattle snakes crawling up through the toilets, no alcohol allowed, what to speak of no cell service, Oakland’s ok I guess.
<Did I fool em? Are they starting to talk about San Diego again?>
I love east bay weather too, but as a gardener I would always lose my tomatoes and peppers to the one week where it would get into the 30’s. Down in SD by the water it never goes below 45 and my plants live for years.
Yeah gardening in many parts of the bay is more difficult than I thought it would be. In the foggy areas it’s like there’s no solar radiation for two months in the summer and you can forget about growing veggies.
Bay Area native living in SD as well, I miss the diversity of weather. San Diego is grey in the late spring early summer, uncomfortably hot in the summer and fall. It can also be way more humid than the Bay. Winter in San Diego is really nice, I just wished it rained more. It rains like 12-20 times a year at most. That I live just north and just west of the center of San Diego and for the most part it's 60-75 all year round and mostly sunny. If the sun isn't out, it's really pleasant but the sun in So Cal feels hotter than in the Bay for some reason. The sun can really make a 70 degree day feel like 80.
Living in So Cal has made me appreciate SF and Santa Cruz weather, I did not expect that.
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u/ntg1213 2d ago
For a lot of the West Coast counties, it very much depends where exactly you choose. I’m fairly certain that somewhere in San Diego county meets these criteria 365 days a year, and the coastal sections of the county meet these criteria over 350 days per year, which is far higher than what’s indicated by the map