{"id":1281,"date":"2011-06-22T02:07:34","date_gmt":"2011-06-22T02:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/?p=1281"},"modified":"2011-06-22T02:07:34","modified_gmt":"2011-06-22T02:07:34","slug":"fog-over-the-alemany-gap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/22\/fog-over-the-alemany-gap\/","title":{"rendered":"fog over the alemany gap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>and this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2011\/06\/21\/BAJR1K0NT0.DTL&#038;tsp=1\">heatwave (and heat advisory)<\/a> is over, if you live near the coast<\/p>\n<p>The Alemany gap is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sjaa.net\/eph\/0107\/b.html\"> one of the first places to get fog<\/a>, other than the Golden Gate and Pacifica.and it&#8217;s centered on upper <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alemany_Boulevard\">Alemany Boulevard in San Francisco<\/a>.. City College of San Francisco sits almost dead center of that gap, as anybody who&#8217;s gone there will tell you the place is usually windy and cold while the rest of California is baking in the heat<\/p>\n<p>Maclaren Park is also in the gap, as is Geneva, and most of the Excelsior<\/p>\n<p>This is about 6pm in San Francisco. When a heatwave breaks, you can get 40F degrees difference depending if your inside or outside the fog, in less than 1 mile(2km). This view is looking south, with Mt San Bruno in the background, and the blue water tower at the top of Mclaren park and buildings in the Mission district in the foreground<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mP-Mf1LxHVs\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>it&#8217;s our natural air conditioner. This summer weather pattern is <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.sfgate.com\/2009-07-06\/entertainment\/17218451_1_golden-gate-bridge-fabled-fog-san-francisco\">unique in all the world<\/a><\/p>\n<p>One hour later, 7pm, it&#8217;s getting thicker&#8230;people are wearing overcoats and sweaters at City College now<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Se0JgN_0MuI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>7:30pm, WTF happened to MT San Bruno?..<\/p>\n<p>   rest of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/9640932@N04\/sets\/72157627018268888\/detail\/\">photo set<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/9640932@N04\/5858340413\/\" title=\"IMG_6842 by auweia, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3003\/5858340413_14ab8c318d_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" alt=\"IMG_6842\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/9640932@N04\/5858316281\/\" title=\"IMG_6847 by auweia, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5200\/5858316281_2cf10c3c17_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" alt=\"IMG_6847\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>8pm, 2 hours later, Mt San Bruno is just plain gone..It&#8217;s solid fog all the way into Candlestick Point now&#8230;by morning, the entire city of San Francisco will be fogged in<\/p>\n<p>wide angle<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/9640932@N04\/5859022416\/\" title=\"IMG_6850 by auweia, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5320\/5859022416_891a377fda_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" alt=\"IMG_6850\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead grew up in this Fog Belt &#8211; Alemany Gap&#8230;.just down the street&#8230;In fact, it&#8217;s now an <a href=\"http:\/\/sf.funcheap.com\/jerry-day-2010-jerry-garcia-tribute-concert-mclaren-park\/\">officially named amphitheater in this same MClaren park<\/a>. That&#8217;s about  as San Francisco as you can get<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>and this heatwave (and heat advisory) is over, if you live near the coast The Alemany gap is one of the first places to get &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-1281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-4-San-Francisco","tag-san-francisco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}