Pleasanton Games

**Jack Daw** · 18th August 10, 11:38 AM

Jiminy, how hot is it expected to be at the Games this year? We're having a severe heat wave all throughout the South, and I'm done with it.

**Dale Seago** · 18th August 10, 04:07 PM

Originally Posted by Jack Daw

Jiminy, how hot is it expected to be at the Games this year? We're having a severe heat wave all throughout the South, and I'm done with it.

It's really unpredictable. Usually mid-80s, but without the level of humidity you'd have in Houston. Last year, though, on Saturday it only got up to the mid-to-high 70s. This year -- so far anyway -- the San Francisco Bay Area is having its coolest summer in many years, with daytime temperatures at my workplace in San Francisco generally hitting the high 50s with overcast/fog/drizzle.

**Alan H** · 18th August 10, 05:41 PM

I will be there, throwing. I suspect that the Rabble will have a tent either "with" or alongside the Clan MacNaughton tent.

Look for the incredibly striking redhead lass with hair down to her rumpus (it's hard to miss the F.-H.C.A.G.) accompanied by a dapper lad and two kids, and you'll have found good company.

**OC Richard** · 19th August 10, 04:21 AM

Unless I get stuck on a Jury (I have to report for Jury Duty on the tuesday before Pleasanton) I'll be driving up early Friday to hear the professional solo piping and hanging around all day Saturday and most of Sunday, driving back Sunday afternoon to OC.

I'm mostly there to listen to the piping, solos in the morning and bands in the afternoon... that and drink good ale... my buddy is a teatotaler and is our Designated Driver.

What's the best Indian food in that area? Last year some of us went to a place in Pleasanton and it was mediocre. There is a good place in San Ramon, I think.

I'll stop by the MacNaughton tent from time to time and maybe we can meet.

I can be spotted by my unique sporran...

and I look like this... (no, not the Samurai... I'm the guy on the left...)

**Jack Daw** · 19th August 10, 05:24 AM

Originally Posted by Dale Seago

It's really unpredictable. Usually mid-80s, but without the level of humidity you'd have in Houston. Last year, though, on Saturday it only got up to the mid-to-high 70s. This year -- so far anyway -- the San Francisco Bay Area is having its coolest summer in many years, with daytime temperatures at my workplace in San Francisco generally hitting the high 50s with overcast/fog/drizzle.

OK, but aren't you talking about SFO? Just 11 miles inland, in Pleasanton, it can reach 100F.

**Dale Seago** · 19th August 10, 07:23 AM

Originally Posted by Jack Daw

OK, but aren't you talking about SFO? Just 11 miles inland, in Pleasanton, it can reach 100F.

Pleasanton is part of the 9-county San Francisco Bay Area, and it's been cooler than normal for the season there too, though not as cool as San Francisco. It's really too early to tell just what it'll be like on Labor Day Weekend, but projections up through 09/01 are for the temp to get up around 83-84 in Pleasanton.

**MacMillans son** · 2nd September 10, 05:17 PM

Ok Gang,

I'll be there all day Saturday. Friend and kilt maker Donna Willy, and her husband John, are competing in individual and band piping so I will be there early to cheer them on! I look forward to meeting folks near clan MacNaughton's tent . I assume Panache and company are staffing a tent but have not confirmed with him. I would be happy to cover a "shift" if needed.

See you there!

Brooke

**kiltimabar** · 3rd September 10, 09:59 PM

I'll see you all on Saturday; my wife Ann is coming too.

**Jaem** · 4th September 10, 12:30 PM

Labor Day is the one time of year I actually wish I was in California. Hope all are having a good time at the games and staying in the shade!

**OC Richard** · 20th August 10, 05:07 AM

Originally Posted by Jack Daw

OK, but aren't you talking about SFO? Just 11 miles inland, in Pleasanton, it can reach 100F.

Yes it dawned on me one day that it seems to be a West Coast thing: take a city which sits right on the coast, which has a very mild climate including rather cool summers, and have some sort of Scottish association there, but have that association's Games take place many miles inland where it's 20 or 30 degrees hotter than in the city itself.

Are the San Diego Games held in San Diego, which has one of the mildest climates on Earth? No indeed, they're far off in an inland valley cut off from all sea breezes and far hotter than San Diego itself.

San Francisco has an amazing climate. It can be cool and foggy on days where a few miles inland it can be 90 or 100 degrees. Hold their Games in the cool weather of the city? No way! Hold them in an inland valley where's it's far hotter, in places like Santa Rosa and Pleasanton.

I've not been to the Seattle/Enumclaw Games but I understand the same thing is happening there.

The Los Angeles area Games are the exception among our largest Games, being held in Costa Mesa, which is near the coast and cool, though some years the Games are held in Pomona, a hot inland valley.

Sorry for the rant... it just occured to me not long ago that this pattern seems to exist with most of the largest Games on the US West Coast.