Climate change is making California coast cooler, rainer

07/06/2011
By Alison Hawkes

Global warming does not portend some warm weather fantasyland for the San Francisco Bay Area. No bikinis and ocean dips for this coastal region. We’re getting more rain and cool weather, even as the inland areas heat up, according to an analysis of 40 years of climate data. Average temperatures in California have increased in only two of eight cities surveyed since 1981. It’s all because of the way weather patterns work here. When it’s warmer inland, there’s a stronger sea breeze so coastal areas get cooler. Yearly rainfall has increased 6 percent in San Francisco. [Read more - San Francisco Chronicle].

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One Response to Climate change is making California coast cooler, rainer

  1. DM on 07/12/2011 at 1:05 pm

    “Climate change is making California coast cooler, rainer”

    First, learn to spell “Rainer”? Are they trying to say that California has turned into Mt. Rainer?

    Second, how can this be? I switched to CFC bulbs and stopped driving my SUV. I thought that was supposed to save us all!

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