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Summer weather in Bay Area
The San Francisco area tends to be hottest in Sept/Oct. Why is that,
since most places in the US are hottest in June - August? Is it just the wind coming from the SW? I just moved to LA and discovered the term June gloom - apparently June tends to be overcast here. The past few days the high here was 99! I also lived in the midwest once and June-Aug also was the hottest and also had thunderstorms in the night. |
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Summer weather in Bay Area
"Richard Fangnail" wrote in message ... The San Francisco area tends to be hottest in Sept/Oct. Why is that, since most places in the US are hottest in June - August? Is it just the wind coming from the SW? I just moved to LA and discovered the term June gloom - apparently June tends to be overcast here. The past few days the high here was 99! I also lived in the midwest once and June-Aug also was the hottest and also had thunderstorms in the night. If you mean San Francisco itself it's to do with the temperature difference between the ocean and the bay which draws cold air in through the Golden Gate. At other times of the year the temperature difference is not so marked. The Peninsular cities on the bay side tend to have rather nice Summers, however, the other side (e.g. HMB) can be distinctly foggy and chilly at times. I can remember arriving at SFO late PM and watching the cloud trying to get over the ridge but being beaten back by the rising heat from the Bay. |
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Summer weather in Bay Area
The San Francisco area tends to be hottest in Sept/Oct. Why is that,
since most places in the US are hottest in June - August? Is it just the wind coming from the SW? There's an excellent little book that explains all these strange phenomena http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520229907 See also http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/mtr/sfd_sjc_...D_CLIMATE3.php My favorite is driving along the ridge between Oakland/Berkeley and the "Lamorinda" area at certain times of year, when the Diablo Valley is under a fog blanket and it's crystal clear over the Bay -- just the opposite of the stereotype. I just moved to LA and discovered the term June gloom Dunno if there's a similar book explaining the climate and weather down there. Meanwhile, here are some tips on how not to have a blue, goose-pimpley vacation in various parts of the greater LA area: http://golosangeles.about.com/od/los.../LAWeather.htm --Joe |
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Summer weather in Bay Area
CALIFORNIA WEATHER: On the same day, California can have the highest and lowest temperatures in the Continental USA. On the same day, one can go skiing on snow or in the Pacific Ocean, hang gliding and dune riding, be caught in a deluge, a blizzard, or near-intolerable heat. California is about a thousand miles North to South and generally about two hundred miles East to West. There is no such thing as “California weather”. San Francisco, smaller than fifty square miles, has about nine climates. Here's the introduction to San Francisco's temperature chart found on the Don't-miss Sights page at http://TouringSFO.info/Sights.html:: “Seacliff, where the idle rich live, has the worst; Dogpatch, where the working poor live, has the best. We NEVER go out without carrying a sweater or jacket and you shouldn't. Those you see covered in goose pimples shivering in their shorts are those at whom we laugh not for their misery but for their arrogance in rejecting the advice we know they, and you, received.” The TouringSFO site at http://TouringSFO.info/ has a wealth of information for you, particularly the Don't-miss Sights and the Flag/ Maps pages with things to see and do and how to get where they are from from where you are and an excellent bicycle/walking map that shows our streets' grades. http://TouringSFO.info/ |
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