The city is in the bay? More like a city in BRRR! San Francisco has been in its coldest summer for decades
It’s time to prompt that famous offer, often wrongly attributed to Mark Twain: “The coldest winter I’ve ever had was spending a summer in San Francisco.”
Of course, it’s a cliché. But this year it’s true. It’s really cold in the city, and on the bay it experienced its coldest summers in decades, with no noticeable warm-up in sight and daytime highs in the mid-60s.
In downtown San Francisco, the average temperature in July is 59.3 degrees, about one degree below normal, said Matt Mehle, a meteorologist with the Monterrey National Weather Service.
He said the average temperature in San Jose in July was 67.4 degrees, about 2 degrees below normal levels.
As of Saturday, in Auckland, temperatures reached 75 degrees or higher in July only once, while in February it hit three.
“It’s not a record-breaking record, but at this point, we’ve been 20 to 30 years since the summer cold,” Mel said, noting that the region last saw a similar weather pattern in the late 1990s.
A seasonal high-pressure system usually brings warmer weather to the wrong place this year, sitting further and further than normal, Mel said. He said a low-voltage system stopped in Northwest and California this summer, resulting in cloud coverage unrelated and low temperatures.
He added that the “mislocation” of the high-pressure system has led to an increase in rise, a process that allows strong winds to bring deep sea water closer to the ground. When the wind blows onto the cold water on land, its temperature drops.
“The coastal uplift is indeed very noteworthy outside of San Francisco Bay and Cape Reyes,” Mel said.
Mel said that drizzle gray weather on the coast will not change much in the next few days, and Mel drove to Monterrey on Saturday, with his windshield wiper swaying.
“We’re basically locked up,” he said of the weather.
Even in San Francisco, where countless summer visitors unexpectedly cost money for sweatshirts and scarves, chills have been the topic of the town.
Nudist Pete Sferra keeps a journal describing how many times he has walked among enthusiasts, telling San Francisco Standard this week that he “actually enjoyed a lot of nude walks this year.” But even he won’t “if freeze”.
“I certainly love temperate weather. I don’t like it’s really hot. I don’t know if it means something bad or it means something good…but I know I like it a lot.”
Karl the Fog – anthropomorphic San Francisco fog, with thousands of followers on social media – joked on Instagram that Thursday’s forecast was “partially cloudy, wind from the West, and Trump is likely in the Epstein archive.”
Further north, this summer brought oppressive inland heat and dangerous thunderstorms.
As of this month, Orleans was a small northeast Humboldt County town near the large, barely-free Butler fires of the Six Rivers and Klamas National Forest, according to the National Weather Service, and as of this month, temperatures had exceeded 100 degrees.
In Redding, temperatures hit 11 times this month at 100 degrees or higher, with temperatures of 109 on July 11.
The mild summer temperatures in Los Angeles averaged about 82 degrees in July, which was also sarcastic there.
This week, the popular @AmericanaAtbrandMemes social media account posted a multitude of memes showing a man walking to his house saying, “The summer in Los Angeles is very mild!”
Just at the door, he couldn’t see it, a woman and two children holding a knife, ready to extinguish it. Their names are August, September and October.
In the Bay Area, Mel warned: “When we start to be cold, that doesn’t mean the summer is over.”
He noted that the hottest temperature recorded in downtown San Francisco was 106 on September 1, 2017.
“We’re sitting under the rain, with dark clouds,” Mel said. “It’s the end of July. But when you look at our climate, the summer isn’t over yet. Some people want a slightly warmer temperature – but you have to be careful what you need.”
