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nendroid | 5 years ago

Of course but bay is still one of the best in the world.

Also the bay encompasses more than SF, while SF and daly city have notoriously foggy weather, the rest of the bay area is quite good.

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umeshunni|5 years ago

There's a narrow slice between San Mateo and Santa Clara that has great weather.

Anything North or West is cold and foggy.

South Bay and East Bay pushes 100F for 3 months a year.

And this is before you consider that we now have 1-2 months of smoke season.

reducesuffering|5 years ago

South and East Bay only have ~10 days a year of 95+. You make it sound like Texas.

nendroid|5 years ago

For the south bay it's not 3 months of the year, 100F lasts for like 2-3 weeks at most (actually realistically it's more like 95-100). It's the same for socal. Socal has about 2-3 weeks in the summer where the temps become sweltering.

Even within LA the temperatures vary, the closer you are to the coastline the better the weather.

I know because I grew up in the south bay, I lived in SF for 2 years and lived in LA for 10 years.

What's overall better in socal is that the winters are much more mild. In the south bay the worst you can get is ice in the morning and really cold nights. Socal winters just has a very slightly lower temperature than spring.

Not trying to say NorCal has better weather than Socal. I'm saying NorCal has some of the best weather in the world despite it not having the "perfect" weather that Socal has. The entire CA coast line is afterall still in the mediterranean climate zone.