Santa Barbara Ranked #1 Best Place to Live for the Weather
By edhat staff
Santa Barbara was named the #1 Best Place to the Live in the U.S. for the Weather in 2018 in a recent ranking by U.S. News & World Report.
According to the report, Santa Barbara offers fewer than 79 cloudy days per year, on average. The mean number of clear or partly cloudy days is 286, with an average of six days below freezing and three days above 90 degrees. Although I'm pretty sure we blew that last average out of the water in recent weeks.
Number 2 on the list is Salinas, California, lettuce capital of the world and home to John Steinbeck, just 230'ish miles north of Santa Barbara. The report stated that Salinas offers just six nights below freezing and three above 90 degrees, on average, throughout the year.
Number 3 was given to San Diego, and 4th was tied between San Francisco and San Jose, with 6th being Honolulu.
Clearly, it's the coastal California cities that dominated this report, to which any Californian would reply, "No, duh."
So congratulations Santa Barbara! This might be a hard honor to accept given the extreme heat we experienced this past week with the lack of air-conditioned buildings, but an honor nonetheless.
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Jul 16, 2018 12:28 PMhmm, why all the empty store fronts downtown? We have Location, Location & poor city management
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Jul 16, 2018 12:06 PMWait...what rag? Does anyone still read this source of information?
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Jul 16, 2018 10:40 AM"Weather" includes rain and we are very very short of rain.
Fail.
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Jul 16, 2018 06:18 PMTootie and concerned4calif just hit the nail on the head!
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Jul 16, 2018 09:57 AMGoleta is #1, because the numbers gathered for Santa Barbara temps/weather are from aggregated sources at the Santa Barbara Airport...in Goleta. Hey, Goleta, "We're Number One!" signs and flags should be put up along Hollister!
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Jul 16, 2018 09:53 AMWow ... #1 in the nation, above Honolulu. Another notch in the SB travel promo's belt. but, don't rest on your laurels SB! When the tourists come for the great weather they will be driving on pot-holed roads, attempting to shop among the shuttered State Street businesses and the homeless, and (at times) seaweed covered beaches. Santa Barbara is a 'gem', but even gems need polishing after years of wear.
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Jul 16, 2018 09:53 AMEarthquake one of the 4 seasons? Simply a little twinge once in awhile.
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Jul 16, 2018 08:21 AMSan Francisco is tied for #4? San Francisco? Really?? San Francisco—home to the damp, cold, London-like fog that chills to the bone most of the year? THAT San Francisco? Oh, my.
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Jul 15, 2018 11:01 PMYet the rampant NIMBY infestation in Santa Barbara creates a gloomy forecast all year round.
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Jul 16, 2018 08:06 AMIt's been the 'NIMBY's who have kept Santa Barbara from turning into Orange County even more than it has.
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Jul 15, 2018 06:39 PMSB definitely has the best weather, we're pretty fortunate. Never been to Salinas, sounds like it would be a nice place to live if the weather is so similar to ours.
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Jul 16, 2018 02:38 PMRYAN: It isn't. On either score.
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Jul 15, 2018 04:40 PMWhy is the weather any different in Ventura and Oxnard? It should have been a three-way tie.
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Jul 16, 2018 10:03 AMOur coastal mountain range running east west gives us sunnier weather than Ventura/Oxnard. Can't tell you how many days I drive from the marine layer conditions in Vta back to SB and the sun pops out just past Carpenteria.
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Jul 16, 2018 08:31 AMFACTOTUM - or Goleta!
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Jul 15, 2018 04:40 PM“We’ve got the perfect weather, take a walk with me East Beach to Leadbetter” - Brandon B from the song The American Riviera
https://youtu.be/zMtZ3j_5vOg
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Jul 15, 2018 03:56 PMNot necessarily a good thing...
https://www.futurity.org/southern-california-clouds-wildfire-1802502-2/
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Jul 15, 2018 09:04 PMThat report (which was covered recently by Edhat) was the first thing that popped into my head.
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Jul 15, 2018 02:24 PMHaving lived here for over 30 years, I don't remember many winters where we had 6 days below freezing. I would expect the average to be less than two. Certainly I remember most summers having more than 3 days above 90.
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Jul 15, 2018 09:14 PMIt appears the report isn't using city data but instead the typical MSA (Metropolitan Statistical Area) that US Census data is based around. I believe that include places outside SB-Goleta like Lompoc, Buellton, Santa Maria, etc. So the temperature data used in the rankings may be an aggregate for our MSA.
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Jul 15, 2018 01:48 PMno mention of the 118 days of fog.
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Jul 15, 2018 12:56 PM#2 is Salinas, CA
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Jul 15, 2018 12:48 PMI hope the listing included info re: our "four seasons" of (1) Drought, (2) Earthquake, (3) Fire and (4) Flood.
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Jul 15, 2018 12:45 PMOh, dear.
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Jul 15, 2018 12:31 PMIt is actually called a water-shortage drought. More marketing NewSpeak.
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Jul 15, 2018 12:17 PMThe highs, and the lows, of our weather. Gotta love it!