I stream public radio from various other cities throughout the day, including, almost daily, from KQED. As a result, I listen to traffic and weather conditions for the bay area and Sacramento pretty much daily, and often know more about them than I do conditions in Atlanta (and I suspect I often know more than my family and friends who live in northern California.)
Which is a long way of introducing this graphic from weatherbug.com... I wanted to see what yesterday's temperatures of record had been for San Francisco and the east bay. Now, gentle readers (hot readers) I ask you: have you ever seen an angrier temperature map? Looks like a massive explosion occurred in Los Angeles and is spewing the fires of hell as far as the northern Rockies and Great Plains. (A scenario that Mike Davis might be able to imagine in one of my favorite books.)
Mexico, though, is apparently experiencing subzero temps, with a few coastal temps of 50.
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It's hard to see on that map because the thick black edge of the coast line obscures most of downtown SF, but you can see the red quickly falling off to an orange-yellow near the coast... meaning that while the rest of the bay area is dying of heat exhaustion, SF is instead at an almost ideal temperature. If there had been a light breeze last night it would have been exactly perfect.
As for Mexico, I guess we didn't include temperature exports as part of NAFTA, huh?
Oh, one last note... if you get tired of KQED when they rebroadcast the same thing over and over you can switch to another SF favorite: KPOO. No, I did not make that up. Despite its scatalogical sounding name, the POO comes from "POOr People's Radio". The description from their website reads:
"KPOO is a community-based nonprofit, noncommercial radio station that caters to the needs of populations traditionally underrepresented in the mainstream media. In addition to broadcasting a wide variety of music not typically heard on commercial stations, KPOO focuses on topics of concern to minorities, women, GLBT, low income households, and youths."
It is indeed angry here in LA. 100+ temps yesterday and today. And I have a cold. Boohoo.
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