Category: weather

The first official day of summer, and the temperatures in San Francisco are around 90 degrees. It’s insanity! While working today, so many people bought ice cold drinks from me and kept complaining about the heat. San Francisco rarely becomes so warm, so people are not used to it.

It’s amusing to see how fickle people are about the weather in San Francisco. I have become one of those people–if it gets above 70 degrees I complain that it’s a bit too hot, and if it goes below 40, I’m chattering my teeth. Since when did I become used to such moderate weather? After all, I’ve been in over 100 degree weather (with humidity) before, and I have been in below zero degree weather as well (could feel my nose freezing up right when I walked outside…).

I suppose when people grow accustomed to one area, one climate, they tend to forget the other climates they had lived in before.

Hmm, when I arrived back from Sacramento a couple days ago, I thought I was glad to be back in good ol’ San Franciscan weather (mostly 60-degree weather during the day, a little cooler during the nighttime). Well, when I stepped off the bus, I realized I felt pretty warm already, despite it being nighttime.

Yesterday, wasn’t outside too much, but I found the temperatures up in the 70s most of the day. Today, I worked outside, and man, despite the fact that it is only 78 degrees, for some reason I feel like that is too hot these days!

You don’t understand; I’ve dealt with more extreme weather in the past–been in negative degree weather in Montana, scorching, humid weather (up in the 90s and 100s) in Virginia–you’d think I would be able to handle this kind of weather here.

But it feels unusual, to have to walk outside with no jacket on here in the city. I guess we San Franciscans are too spoiled with our moderate weather year-round; winter rarely dips below 40 degrees, summer rarely goes above 70.

At least there’s still sunshine in this weather; makes good days for tanning (for those who enjoy it).

Weather is a rather boring topic, but it’s something we notice daily anyway. This week’s weather in San Francisco has been rather amusing. Monday, it was nice and sunny with a breeze in the air. Tuesday, there was rain and gloom. Wednesday seemed just as nice and sunny as Monday was. Thursday was rainy, windy, cold. And now today, Friday, it is partly cloudy but the skies look happy. No sight of rain today!

I think this is the first time I have noticed the weather to do this. Last week the weather was pretty consistent with staying gloomy and rainy. The week before was very consistent with sunny yet cold days.

Most people have the misconception that it is always sunny and warm in all of California. I guess they don’t realize that there’s a rainy season here, too. I have heard some native San Franciscans say that it’s rather usual for the city to have downpours during this time of the year, but apparently in the past few years there have been rather dry winters. Hmm. It’s interesting–I find I have pretty much become acclimated to the weather/temperature here, and now the definition of “cold” here to me is 40-50 degrees. Meanwhile, I know I have experienced much colder temperatures, but I feel like I have forgotten how that feels like now.

Anyway, sorry for a lacklustre Friday post. Have fallen behind on current events lately, so I shall need to catch up over the weekend.

I woke up this morning and looked out the window–saw that it was still raining. However, I didn’t know that the rain/wind was so bad until a few hours later, as I watched the rain almost fall horizontally.

SFGate has a nice, detailed article about this wintry weather. Heh, funny to me that people are saying “this is wintry weather” when I used to worry about snow and such back East. Still, a whole lot of rain is no fun, and it literally rained out a few errands/activities I was going to do today. I’m not going out when I have the option of staying in!

Unfortunately it still looks like the rain decided to come to me…in my apartment. The vent above my stove has been leaking for the past few hours. I went out briefly to Safeway to buy some small groceries and came back to hear the sound of “Drip…drip…drip.” I didn’t know where it was coming from until I walked into my kitchen and saw the stovetop and side of the refridgerator were wet! Ugh. I immediately called the rental office downstairs, and they sent someone up to check on the vents. They said they’d update me on what they decide to do….I sure hope I can cook tonight. And I sure hope the rain clears up so I can go out tomorrow!