Yearly rainfall has increased 6 percent in San Francisco over the last 30 years, a trend that matches climate change predictions. Inland, however, is heating up.
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Yearly rainfall has increased 6 percent in San Francisco over the last 30 years, a trend that matches climate change predictions. Inland, however, is heating up.
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Sigh. Another rainy day ... and it's almost July?! The Bay Area is experiencing a record-breaking rainy June, the likes of which was last seen in 1849 during the Gold Rush.
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The Bay Area’s wet and windy weekend (minus that reprieve on Sunday) is just the beginning of a long wet streak, despite that San Francisco, for example, is already 113 percent of average for the season. The National Weather Service says the first week of Spring is going to be a very, very rainy...
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Two of the most powerful venture capital investment groups – Khosla Ventures and Google Ventures – have ponied up $42 million for WeatherBill, a San Francisco-based crop insurance company. Founded by former Google executives, WeatherBill operates on the premise that climate change will increasingly disrupt agriculture, making the already precarious business of growing food...
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The National Weather Service is speculating that a bitter cold front moving toward the Bay Area could bring snow not only to the region’s peaks, but to elevations as low as downtown this weekend. The last time San Francisco city streets saw snow was in 1976. On the bright side, expect a rain reprieve...
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The Sierra snowpack is at 108 percent normal for this time of year, according to measurements of the state’s frozen water supply. Though that sounds good, if a drop-off in precipitation that began last month continues, due to the La Niña weather pattern, all that could change. Modest rainfall is forecast for this weekend and...
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So, I just returned from Boston where most days I was wearing a long, down jacket and a Russian-style hat with ear flaps. I thought maybe the sudden transition back to sunny Bay Area weather would explain why when I left the airport I quickly wished I was wearing shorts rather than two sweaters...
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