Thank you Richard! Last years weather WAS normal for Sacto. The
alarmist dolts (as usual) were wrong.
malmo
>
>>As one who spent four summers in the Sacto area, I can tell
you that we were
>>incredibly lucky that the weather was miraculously mild for
nearly the
>>entire trials last summer. It's normally over 100 degrees
pretty much every
>>day. If the weather is more normal in 2004, you won't come
away thinking
>>that the weather was one of the best things about the meet.
>
>Some days were cooler than usual, particularly when the distance
races were
>held early in the week, but actually it was otherwise quite
>typical. Sacramento averages only about 7-10 days above 100
degrees for
>the entire summer, and the record is 30 days (1996). Average
high is
>usually about 92-95 degrees. The rapid evening cooling is also
typical here.
>
>Of course, we could hold the meet in Houston, Buffalo, Indianapolis
or
>Atlanta--all with much tougher conditions due to the humidity
being between
>double and triple Sacto levels. Humidity when its 100 here
typically falls
>to below 20%.
>
>No, Sacto won't deliver (often rainy) Eugene conditions for
the minority of
>the crowd that is distance aficionados, but for everyone else,
you'll
>largely get perfect sprint and jump conditions without the torrid
humidity
>in the East.
>
>Richard McCann
>
>
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