SACRAMENTO, Calif. \u2014 Every year, Sacramento local Mark Homer said he goes to the California State Fair for more than one good reason.<\/p>\n
What You Need To Know<\/p>\n
Days of at least 104 degrees in Sacramento currently happen about 10 to 14 days a year, but that will change through mid-century to\u00a040 to 60 days per year
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Cities in the South such as LA will also see more extreme heat days but it is buffeted a little by sea breezes
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The Inland Empire will experience weather similar to cities in the Middle East
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The California State Fair will move to Fall next year for the first time in roughly 75 years because of the rising summer temperatures<\/p>\n
\u201cI love seeing the exhibits, you know, the artwork and all that,\u201d Homer said. \u201cI love seeing that stuff and then going through all the booths, you know the merchandise they sell and the new stuff coming out. It\u2019s kind of really nice to see.\u201d<\/p>\n
For roughly 75 years the state fair has been held during summer, the heat in Sacramento not an issue for Homer, he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s never bothered me,\u201d Homer said. \u201cI\u2019ve been [coming] here 26 years, and I\u2019ve just gotten used to it.\u201d<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a different way of thinking about the heat than for longtime fair-goer Lauren, who preferred to only use her first name.<\/p>\n
\u201cI hate the heat,\u201d Lauren said. \u201cSee look it, I\u2019m already sweating.\u201d<\/p>\n
She said that\u2019s why she lined up before the gates opened \u2014 to beat the day\u2019s worst heat.<\/p>\n
The biggest complaint fair officials said from attendees is the heat, and the primary reason why this will be the last year the event will be held in summer as it moves to fall.<\/p>\n
The state is set to see a sizable rise in temperatures at least until 2050, climate experts report.<\/p>\n
What\u2019s more, extreme temperatures during the summer are set to become more common.<\/p>\n
Days of at least 104 degrees in Sacramento currently happen about 10 to 14 days a year, but that will change, said professor of climate modeling at UC Davis, Paul Ullrich.<\/p>\n
\u201cThrough mid-century and going into the end of century, we\u2019re expecting more on the order of 40 to 60 days per year,\u201d Ullrich said. \u201cWhich is basically the vast majority of the summer season where you\u2019re going to be seeing these extreme temperatures.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said cities in the south, such as LA, will also see more extreme heat days, but it is buffeted a little by sea breezes.<\/p>\n
Of note will be the Inland Empire, a big concern, he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn the case of Sacramento, we anticipate by the end of the century that it\u2019s going to look more like Phoenix,\u201d Ullrich said. \u201cHowever, for the Inland Empire under warming through end of century, we don\u2019t really have a good analog. Potentially, maybe some of the cities in the Middle East for what we expect by the end of the century.\u201d<\/p>\n
This will have a major impact Ullrich said on how we live and areas function.<\/p>\n
The state fair will start in mid-September next year.<\/p>\n
Homer said he prefers a summertime slot for the fair but is just glad to know he can go again.<\/p>\n
\u201cYeah, oh yeah, I\u2019ll still come back next year,\u201d Homer said.<\/p>\n
Because he said heat or no heat, the fair is always fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SACRAMENTO, Calif. \u2014 Every year, Sacramento local Mark Homer said he goes to the California State Fair for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":412355,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[36621,2999,7,9,8,643,5998,136,5996,19],"class_list":["post-412354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-app-environment","tag-app-weather","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-environment","tag-jamie-kennedy","tag-top-stories","tag-vod","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}