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Welcome to the family news section of our web site, where we publish the latest news about our family, our extended family, and our friends, updated as new news becomes available. Nobody can ever accuse the Sacramento Valley of being cool in the summer, as our summertime temperatures frequently surpass many cities in the Mojave Desert. Naturally, June, July and August are the hottest months, but its not unheard of to have a 100 plus degree day after Halloween. Such is life in the Sacramento Valley. How hot is July in Roseville, CA? Normally we get about 7 or 8 one hundred degree-plus days, and rarely do we see temperatures above 105. After doing a bit of research, I noted that the hottest day ever recorded in Roseville was 115.0f on July 15, 1972. Prior to July 22, 2006, in the 10 years that I've been living here, the hottest temperature that I'd ever recorded was 110.1f on July 23, 2001. But in 2006, that was about to change.
Left: The outdoor sensor suite of my Davis VantagePro computerized weather station. Right: Sunday, July 23, 2006 "Metro" page from The Sacramento Bee tells all about the hot weather. Allow me to digress and tell you a little bit about myself. I've been interested in weather for all of my life. In fact, if I had my life to live over again, I would become a meet for a living. Back in the mid 1970's, when I owned my first home, I constructed a weather station out in the back yard that consisted of a thermometer and a rain gauge. The thermometer had a sensor that was positioned exactly 4 feet above the ground, and was ventilated, so it would give an accurate reading. Since there were no computers in those days, all readings were in "real time" so I had to get up at " 0-dark-30" to get the morning lows, and you could pretty much guarantee the days high temperature in the late afternoon. The rain gauge was one of those little plastic bucket things that you had to empty every day. But my weather station worked, and it was a lot of fun. Fast-forward to the year 2000, and my wife gives me a Davis VantagePro weather station, and software for my birthday. What a present! I took great pains to orient the outdoor sensor suite to the north, like you're supposed to, and to make sure that the temperature sensor is mounted 4 feet above the ground. To ensure accuracy, the area around the sensor suite is covered with walk-on bark, in order to suppress either an artificially high or low temperature reading. The data is collected on the outdoor sensor suite, and then travels via a U.H.F. radio link to the console, located in my den. From the console, the data is uploaded to my computer via a serial port, and updated every 15 minutes. The data is displayed on my computer screen by a Davis software program called WeatherLink. All in all, its an awesome setup, if you're a weather "geek" like I am. I could post live weather on this web site, but I don't, due to security issues. My weather station is as accurate as those of the National Weather Service. If you know anything about weather, you know that you can have two stations, separated by only a few meters, and you'll get different readings. So when I read the official temperatures in the paper, I take that into consideration. As of today, July 23, 2006, these have been the days so far this month over 100 degrees: July 6: 102.5, July 7: 106.2, July 14: 101.5, July 15: 102.3, July 16: 103.1, July 17: 109.1, July 18: 106.2, July 19: 102.8, July 20: 107.1, July 21: 106.5, July 22: 111.6, and as of 1215, on July 23, it's 109.1 degrees.
Left: Awh geeee! I'm always telling my readers to avoid flare-ups when grilling, so I should heed my own advice on a hot July afternoon. Right: It's 110 degrees in the shade, and I'm outside, grilling leg of lamb on our outdoor Weber barbecue. I grill when I grill, because I love to grill! The weather guys had been warning that the weekend of July 22-23, 2006 was going to be a hot one, but I wasn't sure how hot. I woke up Saturday morning, July 22, and found that the low was a "low" of 78.6! That's unheard of for Roseville, as our lows are usually in the mid to upper 60's. Anyway, temperature-wise, here's how the weekend went, starting with Saturday, July 22: 0500:
78.6 So what did I do on a day that reached over 111? I took a 8-plus mile hike, as part of my excersise routine in the morning, drank lots of water and grilled a leg of lamb roast on the outdoor grill, in the scorching heat. Look at it this way... I'm getting a pretty good sun tan. July 22nd reached a new record high for the day in nearby Sacramento, as the mercury reached 109 and the low was 78, shattering the old record for the day of 105/71. The Sacramento Bee reported that Roseville's temperature reached 115, which would tie the all-time record, but I recorded 111.6 at my place. As I mentioned before, it all depends upon where the temperature is measured. We generally are a few degrees warmer than Sacramento, as Roseville is located to the east, in Placer County, and my weather station is located at a height of 181.00 feet. We have a tendency to "benefit" from an inversion layer, that rises east, from the valley floor, toward the nearby foothills. Continuing on with our record-breaking hot spell, July 24th: Low 74.2, high 112.9. July 25th, low 83.4, with a high of 110.8! As of today, July 26, 2006, we have had 14 consecutive days in a row that topped 100, shattering the old record of 9 days. The weather reports say that we should have a couple more hundred-plus days before the weather cools back into the mid-90's, where it should be. We had the thermostat for the inside of our house set at a very conservative 78f, yet it seemed that the air conditioner ran all weekend without a break. Considering that our house is energy efficient with upgraded R-50 insulation equates to just one thing: Very hot weather! Well there you have it, a hot July in Roseville!
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