Rain

The US average is 38 inches of rain per year….Climate Averages.

January
The driest month in Sacramento is July with 0.05 inches of precipitation, and with 3.84 inches January is the wettest month.

The sudden switch from record-dry to record-wet conditions in California is what Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at the University of California at Los Angeles, has referred to as “precipitation whiplash.” A dramatic example of this occurred in 2016 when California had its wettest year on record after a historic …

11 days
Sacramento averages 11 days a year of 100-degree-Fahrenheit weather, with nearly half of those hot days occurring in July. Even so, the temperature here can climb into the 100s anytime from late spring until early fall.

The Sacramento Valley is the area of the Central Valley of the U.S. state of California that lies north of the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta and is drained by the Sacramento River….

Sacramento’s summer weather is almost boringly consistent. Expect it to be hot, but rain is unlikely. By Sacramento standards, summer is the most humid season, but it rarely exceeds 30 percent.

The study noted that temperatures were hotter in Sacramento because of a high level of pavement compared to greenery or trees in some neighborhoods, among other factors.

Gasquet is located in the Smith River National Recreation Area and is reputed to be the rainiest place in California with an average annual rainfall of 95 inches (2,400 mm). A post office operated at Gasquet from 1879 to 1902 and from 1949 to present. The name is in honor of Horace Gasquet, its first postmaster..

Moreover, using the broader criteria of soil moisture, etc., the paper pointed to 1980-1998 as the wettest 19-year period in at least 1,200 years.

It gets hot in Northern California during the summer, but this heat wave has a few things that sets it apart. SACRAMENTO, Calif. A heat wave is typically caused by a kink in the jet stream that allows a ridge of high pressure to sit over an area and the air sinks and the temperatures rise.

Sacramento is now officially in its longest dry spell ever, breaking a record that stood for more than 140 years. Thursday marked 195 consecutive days without measurable rainfall (0.01 inch or more) downtown, the National Weather Service’s Sacramento office said this week.