Curious summer san francisco

It takes the path of least resistance, squeezing through sea-level gaps in the mountains and ridges — the biggest of which is at the Golden Gate. This creates something known as the Bernoulli Effect. You have the water cranked up all the way and you have the flow coming out of it. Well, you put your thumb over it, you restrict it down, and all of a sudden you shoot 20 yards across the driveway," said Null. Why it's foggy in the summer The temperature differences also explain why the Bay Area gets so much fog in the summer.

In the summer, it gets stronger, creating big clockwise winds over the ocean. Those winds push the surface water of the ocean away from the California coastline. Very cold water from deep in the ocean rises to the surface.

This is called upwelling. Something known as the California Current also brings cold water south from Alaska. When the sea breeze blows over this much colder water, condensation forms — creating fog. The fog comes inland in the summer for similar reasons as the wind: While it stays cool by the ocean, the high temperatures inland create lower pressure, and the fog is sucked in through gaps in the mountains, like the Golden Gate.

Will our fog and wind remain? The first clue to the origins of this famous non-quote lies with Mark Twain himself. Therefore, one would expect to hear these things spoken of, and gratefully, and disagreeable matters of little consequence allowed to pass without comment.

I say, one would suppose that. The multitude of pleasant things by which all people of San Francisco are surrounded are not talked of at all. No—they damn the wind, and they damn the dust, and they give all their attention to damning them well, and to all eternity. The blasted winds and the infernal dust—these alone form the eternal topics of conversation, and a mighty absurd topic it seems to one just out of Washoe Twain had just arrived in San Francisco from what is now Virginia City, Nevada.

It was the creation of the Nevada Territory, from the western part of the Utah Territory known as Washoe, that brought Samuel Clemens and his brother Orion west. But it is human nature to find fault—to overlook that which is pleasant to the eye, and seek after that which is distasteful to it. His distaste for Parisian weather that spring and summer grows more palpable with each entry in his notebook:. Have had rain almost without intermission for 2 months and one week.

Have had a fire [in the fireplace] every day since Sept. Had a raw cold rain to-day; to-night we sit around a rousing wood fire. By September , the Clemenses were back in the good old U.

On April 28, , from his home in Hartford, he wrote Lucius Fairchild a letter congratulating him on his appointment four months earlier to the post of Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Spain. Twain began:. Paris the cold, Paris the drizzly, Paris the rainy, Paris the Damnable. Let us change the proverb; let us say all bad Americans go to Paris when they die.

No let us not say it; for this adds a new horror to immortality. She helped launch Bay Curious as a radio series in , then turned it into a podcast in When not tethered to a computer by a pair of headphones, Olivia loves running, playing with other people's dogs and taking weekend trips around California. Follow her on Twitter or Instagram. Paul has worked in media production for many years - mostly in audio, mostly in radio, mostly at KQED in San Francisco.

He loves being part of the team of storytellers that is Bay Curious. She spends her free time baking, listening to records and rooting for the San Francisco Giants.

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