It is time to indicate that famous event, often falsely attributed to Mark Twain: “The coldest winter I spent was a summer in San Francisco.”
It's a cliché, of course. But this year it sounds true. It really has been quite cold in the city for the bay, which is experiencing its coldest summer in decades, without significant heating in the sight and the top diurnal that date back to the mid -60s.
In the center of San Francisco, the average temperature in July has been 59.3 degrees, approximately one degree below normal, Matt Mehle, a meteorologist of the National Meteorological Service in Monterey, said on Saturday.
The average temperature in San José in July has been 67.4 degrees, approximately two degrees below normal, he said.
And in Oakland, until Saturday, the temperature had reached 75 degrees or more only once in July, compared to three times in February.
“It is not a record, but at this point, we are looking for between 20 and 30 years since we have had this summer cold,” said Mehle, noting that the area saw similar climatic patterns at the end of the 1990s.
Mehle said that a seasonal high pressure system that generally brings a warmer climate is somewhat out of place this year, sitting more west than normal. This summer, he said, a low pressure system has been parked on the northwest of the Pacific and California, which leads to an implacable cloud cover and colder temperatures.
The “error” of the high pressure system, he added, has contributed to the increase in elevation, a process by which the strong winds bring the deep and cold water of the ocean to the surface. When the wind blows on this colder water to the earth, it demolishes temperatures.
“The coastal optation has been really remarkable outside the Bay of San Francisco and the West of Point Reyes,” Mehle said.
In the next few days, the rawled gray weather is not expected along the coast to change a lot, said Mehle, who led to working in Monterey on Saturday with his wiper -widden that slides.
“We are basically locked up,” he said about climatic conditions.
Even in San Francisco, where innumerable summer tourists have unnoticed money for sweatshirts and scarves, chill has been the talk of the city.
The nudist Pete Sferra, who maintains a newspaper that describes how many times he walks through the city in the fan, told the San Francisco standard this week that “he has really been enjoying enough bare walks this year.” But even he would not “be freezing.”
Walnut Creek's resident, Lisa Shedd, 60, told Mercury News: “I certainly love the temperate climate. I'm not a really hot fan. I don't know if it means something bad or means something good … but I know I'm enjoying it.”
Karl The Fog, the anthropomorphized of San Francisco's fog with hundreds of thousands of followers on social networks, joked on Instagram that Thursday's prognosis was “partially cloudy, winds of the West, and a great possibility that Trump was in Epstein's archives.”
Further north, this summer has brought oppressive heat inside and dangerous ray storms.
In Orleans, a small city in the Northeast of Humboldt County near the mass fire site and barely contained in the six rivers and Klamath national forests, temperatures had been exceeding 100 degrees seven times this month from Saturday, according to the National Meteorological Service.
In Redding, the temperature had reached 100 degrees or more 11 times this month, exceeding 109 on July 11.
Soft summer temperatures in Los Angeles, where the city center has averaged about 82 degrees in July, have also been satirized.
This week, the popular social media accounts @americanaatbrandmemes published a very shared meme that shows a man walking home, saying: “Summer in Los Angeles has been 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 area, Mehle warned that “while we started colder, that does not mean that summer is over.”
He pointed out that the most popular temperature ever registered in the center of San Francisco was 106 years, on September 1, 2017.
“We are sitting here under drizzle, clouds, in the cold,” Mehle said. “It is the end of July. But summer is not over when you look at our weather. Some people want slightly warmer temperatures, but you must be careful with what you want.”
