San Francisco Summer Project

Posted: August 12th, 2008 | Author: Lindsay | Filed under: learnings, life, san francisco | Tags: | 2 Comments »

While the rest of the country is burning up this summer, San Francisco is sitting in a big marshmallow.  Literally.  You all get to go to the beach, while I have to wear winter clothes to work.

Every morning I wake up and go to my kitchen for breakfast.  My roommate and I have a beautiful view of the city, spanning from Coit Tower to the Transamerica Building, with the center piece being Treasure Island and the Bay Bridge.  But for the past couple weeks, we’ve dropped into the typical “Fog In Fog Out” pattern that overcomes the city each summer.  And, it’s depressing, to say the least.

I couldn’t (well sort of) believe how foggy its been the past couple weeks, so I started taking pictures out my kitchen window so other people could see what our summers are like in “Beautiful Sunny California!”  Check out the set on Flickr here.  As you can see, when its sunny, the view is amazing, and when its cloudy, the view is just outright sad.

For example, lets take the rapid changes in weather.  Yesterday, in the morning I woke up to this:

Amazing Sun

And last evening, the sun set like this:

The Big Marshmallow‘

So think twice when you pack to come visit SF, because that is how fast the weather can change here.  And, visit in the Fall or Spring.  Clearly Summer has its drawbacks (unless you want to cool down).