It is time to indicate this famous quote, often falsely attributed to Mark Twain: “The coldest winter I have ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.”
It’s a shot, of course. But this year, it sounds true. It was really cold enough in the city at the edge of the bay, which has known its coldest summer for decades, without significant warm -up in sight and diurnal summits in the mid -1960s.
In downtown San Francisco, the average temperature in July was 59.3 degrees, approximately one degree below normal, Matt Mehle, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Monterey on Saturday.
The average temperature in San Jose in July was 67.4 degrees, about two degrees below normal, he said.
And in Oakland, from Saturday, the temperature had reached 75 degrees Or more once in July, against three times in February.
“It is not record – but at this stage, we have been looking for 20 to 30 years since we had this summer cold,” said Mehle, noting that the region had seen the weather conditions similar at the end of the 1990s.
Mehle said that a high pressure seasonal system which generally brings a warmer time is somewhat moved this year, sitting further to the west than normal. This summer, he said, a low pressure system was parked northwest of the Pacific and California, leading to an implacable cloud cover and cooler temperatures.
The “bad placement” of the high pressure system, he added, contributed to an increase in revival, a process by which strong winds bring the water closer to the cold and cold ocean of the surface. When the wind blows on this colder water towards the earth, it lowers temperatures.
“The coastal upwelling was really notable just outside the Bay of San Francisco and west of Point Reyes,” said Mehle.
In the coming days, the weather foggy gray along the coast should not change much, said Mehle, who led to work in Monterey on Saturday with her wipe wipers.
“We are essentially locked up,” he said about weather conditions.
Even in San Francisco, where countless summer tourists have spent money unexpectedly for sweatshirts and scarves, the cold was talked about.
Nudist Pete Sferra, who holds a newspaper describing how many times he walks the city in the buff, said to the San Francisco standard This week, he “took advantage of some naked walks this year”. But even he would not come out “if it’s freezing”.
The resident of Walnut Creek, Lisa Shedd, 60, told Mercury News: “I certainly like temperate time. I am not a fan of really hot. I don’t know if it means something bad or it means something good … But I know that I appreciate it.”
Karl The fog – The anthropomorphized fog of San Francisco with hundreds of thousands of followers on social networks – joking about Instagram that the forecasts for Thursday were “partially cloudy, winds coming from the West and a great chance of Trump be in Epstein files. “”
Further north, this summer has brought an interior and dangerous heat. Storms of the strip.
In Orleans – a small town in the county of Humboldt, in the northeast near the site of the huge Butler In the six rivers and national Klamath forests – temperatures had been greater than 100 degrees seven times this month, Saturday, according to The National Weather Service.
In Redding, the temperature had reached 100 degrees or more 11 times this month, exceeding 109 on July 11.
Light summer temperatures in Los Angeles, where the high city center was on average around 82 degrees in July, were also satiated.
This week, social media accounts @americanaatbrandmemes published A very shared meme Showing a man walking towards his house, saying: “Summer in Los Angeles was quite soft!”
Just inside the door, invisible by him, a woman and two children hold knives, ready to jump. Their names are August, September and October.
In the bay region, Mehle warned that “even if we started to cool, it does not mean that summer is over.”
The hottest temperature never recorded In downtown San Francisco, he noted, was 106, on September 1, 2017.
“We are sitting here under the drizzle, the clouds, in the cold,” said Mehle. “It’s at the end of July. But summer is not finished when you look at our climatology. Some people want slightly warmer temperatures – but you should be careful what you want. ”