SFist: Photo du Jour 290

Belgand

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 22:34:10 -0800

I grew up with real heat. Hot, sticky summers where 100 degree weather was to be expected for at least a few weeks. According to Weather Underground it was in the 70s for the weekend and made it up to the 80s or so today. That's not really "hot", that's warm. That's the sort of pleasant, enjoyable summer weather that everyone else gets three or more months of while we're stuck in frigid lower 60s and dense fog blocking out the sun for weeks at a time. There's a reason why GG Park was swarmed with people enjoying the nice weather.

Generik

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:40:49 -0800

If you want hot weather, move to fucking Sacramento. I've fucking hated the past three days here, and I grew up in the Inland Empire of SoCal, so I know what real heat is. If I wanted this, I'd stick my head in the oven for a week.

bardwell

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 15:14:53 -0800

Getting mad about the weather? So, you like getting mad then?

Generic

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:31:36 -0800

First off, we do have summers in SF, and they should stay in August & September where they damn well belong. Second, it wasn't Mark Twain that said it. And third it's not a rain fetish, it's a fog fetish. Or an anything-but-sun fetish. And he's certainly not alone in it.

Brock Keeling

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:31:09 -0800

you may have a point.

Belgand

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 13:55:11 -0800

Seriously Brock, we get maybe a week of nice, warm summer weather a year. You can learn to deal with it getting into the 70s for a couple days without having to bitch about it actually being pleasant outside for once. The rain fetish is really starting to get old.

setinherways

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 13:08:29 -0800

Ugh. I live near Ocean Beach and the breeze feels like 80. Fog...(gasp)...I NEED FOG!!!!

polizeros

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 12:11:44 -0800

SF is a wonderful city. However, you don't have summer and haven't a clue what hot weather is. But then, we lived in the San Fernando Valley one recent summer with 90 days in a row over 90, 17 in a row over 100, and it peaked out at 117. (It is possible the heat did bake my brain.) Now, we're moving back to the Land of Warm again, where 95 is considered getting hot. This is a great website, SF a wondrous city, but Mark Twain was right about the summers...

periqueblend

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 10:22:50 -0800

It was like a bomb went off in my neighborhood – but the shrapnel was tattooed but very pale hipsters in barely there clothing. So it wasn't all bad.