The Politics of Weather in Beautiful California

California is enjoying a beautiful summer – particularly Northern California. Our usual July temperatures are hot – 90 to 100+ degrees.

July 2025 has been glorious – high 70’s, and 80 to 85 degrees. It hit 90 degrees Monday and people complained about the heat.

July 12th, we reported, “Governor Newsom urges Californians to take precautions as state endures triple digit heat, smoky conditions.” Apparently 40 million Californians have no idea what to do when summer temperatures hit 100 degrees – at least that is what Governor Gavin Newsom and his PR team think.

The governor said, “Californians are strongly encourage [sic] to us [sic] state and local resources to protect themselves from heat illness as triple digit temperatures move across our state.

Oh NO! Heat illness? Shelter in place! Stay indoors! It’s hot!

The propagandists of the climate swindle are desperately trying to rule through fear.

In previous Julys I have written about the politics of weather:

It was 105 degrees in Sacramento Sunday. Today it could be 111 degrees. This is what is known as hot summer weather in California. We native Californians also know this is normal.

As a kid, I remember such hot Sacramento summer days, I couldn’t walk barefoot on the sidewalks.

But no one cautioned us to “be safe.” In fact, when I was a kid, parents told us to put shoes on and to stop being stupid.

Last summer during the usual warm weather, weather newscasters were warning of “extreme heat,” telling people to “stay hydrated,” and warned everyone to “shelter in place.”

In recent years media weather reporters overstate the heat – often exaggerating “extreme heat” as much hotter than the actual forecast. And when they are wrong, they never correct it or admit it.

In July 2023 we reported that news outlets issued dire warnings that California will be under an “extreme” heat wave:

“Fox News reported breathlessly Sunday evening that temperatures in California will reach as high as 120 degrees this week, without identifying where.” (Tip: not Northern CA)

“It’s not your imagination: Sacramento is getting hotter, data shows.” the Sacramento Bee headline cautioned Friday. They also say, “The six warmest years in California have all happened in the past decade, according to NOAA.”

Is this just a little misleading?

The Sacramento region is experiencing a heat wave, which is expected nearly every summer since temperatures were recorded. Media are hyping that Sunday was the hottest in Sacramento history, but they ignore that it is normal to have triple digit temperatures every July in Sacramento. So we reached 109. We do every summer.

As the Globe reported Friday, “Now that Summer has finally arrived in California, many of these shameless green agenda forecasters are warning of a ‘dangerously hot’ summer.”

These shameless green forecasters are uncharacteristically silent this year.

As the Globe has reported every year, news media tries to scare people over seasonal temperatures, seasonal changes, and natural weather happenings.

Last year in June 2024, the Globe reported:

UC Berkeley/LA Times Poll Claims “Californians Fear Worsening Weather Swings Due to Climate Change.” In fact, the Los Angeles Times claims “Nearly 70% of registered voters say they expect that volatile fluctuations between severe drought and periods of heavy rain and snow — what some call weather whiplash — will become more common in the future due to climate change, according to a new UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies poll co-sponsored by the Los Angeles Times.”

It was BS in June 2023, and it is BS in June 2024.

Extreme Weather Watch reports Sacramento July Weather Records for 1877–2024. The coldest Sacramento July day in recorded history was 65 degrees in 1974. The hottest Sacramento July day in recorded history was 115 degrees in 1961.

 

This is the Sacramento in July monthly high and low averages:

It gets hot in Sacramento in July, as you can see. That is normal. It is not extreme or unusual. It’s our mild weather right now that is unusual. But we are enjoying it.

In 2022 Sacramento city officials imposed a soft lockdown on city residents: The parks were closed due to a forecasted heat wave. Parks are where people retreat when the weather is hot, to get out of hot homes and apartments.

This is the braintrust behind these time-wasting taxpayer-funded programs – they tried to close parks.

Here are the facts about the very different climate regions in California:

Sacramento has a Mediterranean climate with dry hot summers and mild winters. The Sacramento region is covered by approximately 75 percent of grasslands, more than 20 percent crops, and about two percent forest land. Average Sacramento temperatures swing from a low of 38 degrees in January, to a high of nearly 100 degrees in July, and most summers reach days of triple digit heat.

San Francisco occupies the tip of a peninsula halfway up the coast of Northern California, surrounded on three sides by bodies of water.

While Sacramento is arid, dry and flat, San Francisco is laid out in a grid over more than 40 hills, which causes wide variations in temperature and sky conditions in different places in the area. San Francisco’s average temperature swing is significantly less dramatic than Sacramento, from a low of approximately 55 degrees, to an average high of just 65 degrees.

Of course San Francisco residents use less water than Sacramento Valley residents.

While the weather in the Southern California region is usually mild, especially in the winter, and dry, with rainfall ranging from moderate in the coastal regions to almost none at all in the desert, parts are often hot, dry and windy. The Southern California Coast enjoys warmer Mediterranean temperatures.

It’s July 31st, a day usually over 100 degrees. Today it’s in the high 80’s, and may reach 94 degrees. It is beautiful. And Gavin Newsom’s cooling centers aren’t necessary.

The highest temperature ever recorded in Sacramento, California was 115 °F which occurred on June 15, 1961.

The lowest temperature ever recorded in Sacramento, California was 17 °F which occurred on December 11, 1932.

That’s a significant temperature swing – 17 degrees up to 115 degrees.

It’s Sacramento weather.