Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Snow in San Francisco?


Well, not quite, but still worth mentioning. Here are a couple quotes and a photo from this morning's SF Gate article Snow, rain a double treat for the Bay Area.

In general, residents should prepare for cool temperatures and showers during the next several days, with heavier rain forecasted for Thursday night and Friday, National Weather Service forecaster Brian Tentinger said.

"But it's going to be pretty snowy (this week)," he said. "Some areas will see large amounts of snow, and some areas will hardly see anything. ... Toward the weekend, there will be a bigger storm coming through, and that might generate more widespread, heavy snow. "

Later in the article, the author gets real. . .
Forecasters said the weather will be chilly near Lake Tahoe and in the Bay Area, though it's all a matter of perspective: Some East Coast cities were reporting temperatures as low as 34 degrees below zero Monday.

It will be admittedly more comfortable in the Bay Area, said Tentinger, where highs will hover around 50 degrees today and lows will drop into the upper 30s overnight.


You see. . . as compared to the majority of the US, it isn't really THAT cold here (on land anyway).