SF News Power Outage in Cole Valley? A reader writes in declaring, "Wimpy rainstorm cuts power to 4,400 in Cole Valley, and...?" Your editor's power went out briefly, but that may be because he lives in a 100-year-old Victorian
SF News 'Spare the Air Day' In Effect Today Resident in Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, southern Sonoma and southwestern Solano counties are forbidden -- forbidden! -- to burn wood or fire logs in fireplaces, wood
SF News Creepy Warm Weather Continues to Bombard Bay Area Sure, the weather over the past few days has been "nice." If you call "nice" oddly and dangerously warm. Also, our allegies have arrived unseasonably early since pollen capsules, or whatever, have been
SF News Weather Report: Still Cold Well, it's still chilly, with some Bay Area cities seeing temperatures dip into the 20s. Fortunately, we'll see another break in the rain today. (While the rest of the state is seeing some
SF News It Snowed in San Francisco! It looks like it snowed right here in San Francisco yesterday and last night. Can you believe it? According to reports the snow was white, fluffy, and cold to the touch. Also, the
misc Today's Rainbow Thanks, Jen Maiser, for capturing this gorgeous shot from today's manic weather.
SF News Glacier Watch 2008 Bundle up, folks. The entire Bay Area is expected to freeze over starting tomorrow. In addition to the anticipated rainfall and ninth-circle-of-hell cold weather, the weather service suggests that that snow levels could
SF News One Rincon Hill Signals SF Weather Starting tonight, look at One Rincon Hill to get your weather forecast. The top of the city's tallest apartment building will now use a nifty color-coded system of lights to signal the weather.
SF News Incoming Rain Could Bring Debris Flows With the Bay Area scheduled for a much-needed shower, an "incoming storm," according to California Fire News, will drag "the remnants of a typhoon that hit Taiwan last Sunday" bringing said debris to
SF News Bad Heat, Bad Air Feel how it's a bit difficult to breath? Yeah, that's the effect of the bad air we're swimming though due to the wildefies. Gross. Slap on a few fresh coats of make-up on
SF News Weather Underground Announces Excessive Heat Watch Warning What in heaven's name is going on? Oy, this heat, eh? A little before 1:30 p.m. today, Weather Underground announced this harrowing statement of excessive heat. Of steam heat, if you
misc It's a Beautiful Day to PresidiGo Fortunately, there's another bus that you can take to the Presidio -- it's free, it's comfortable (big soft comfy seats!) and it even runs on natural gas. It's called the "PresidiGo," and it's
misc Ask SFist: It's So Hot Via the editor's inbox, we received the following setup: How hot is it? Wakka wakka. Shoot.
misc We Couldn't Agree More Could you please remind the readers that just because it’s way nice this weekend that it’s still no excuse to wear fucking flip flops everywhere? I’d like one summer of
SF News Chilly Nights Kill Sonoma County Vineyards No! Due to the awesome unseasonably cold weather the Bay Area has experienced over the last few months, an estimated 10 to 15 percent of Sonoma County's $400 million vino crop has succumbed
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight *MUSIC: Kelley Stoltz, Grand Archives, the Morning Benders, and le Weather Underground sing some songs for you over at the Independent. (Part of Noise Pop 2008.) COMEDY: Get ready to hee yourself silly.
misc Muni's Guide to the Weekend: The Chinese New Year Isn't Done With You Yet Good grief, this Chinese New Year business sure does go on for a long time. This weekend, it's a New Year Parade and a New Year Community Fair that'll be tying up traffic.
SF News UPDATE: Two San Francisco Skiers <del>Still Missing</del> Found Safe Patrick Frost, 35, and Christopher Gerwig, 32, of San Francisco are still nowhere to be found since reported missing since reported missing last Saturday night at Alpine Meadows, just north of Lake Tahoe.
Arts & Entertainment Rainy Weather: What to Do, What to Do, What to Do? (...a rainy day, in SF town.) Heavens, no! You don't have to stay at home this weekend just because of a few pregnant storm clouds looming overhead. And you most certainly don't have
SF News Your Damp, Rough Weather Forecast Surely looking to turn us all into latter-career, Catalina-vacationing Natalie Woods, it looks like the rain will fall down (and wake our dreams) and won't stop until god knows when. Flooding, high winds,
misc AlertSF's Alarming Alarmism Dear AlertSF, Why do you yell at us? You've done this to us five times today already, and we still don't understand you with the greatest clarity. To wit: The National Weather Service
misc SFist photo: Snow Falling on Mt. Tam Remember how we told you that today there would be snow? Well, we decided to check it out for ourselves up on the north side of Mt. Tam. The photo above is from
SF News Crystalline Water Ice Particles Fall from the Sky Yesterday's near perfect weather is now but a sepia-toned memory. Reports of a strange, icy substance, often referred to as "snow," is falling on Mount Diablo, Mount Hamilton in Santa Clara County, Mount
misc San Francisco On High Wind Alert, Claims SFAlert We received three urgent text messages since 9 a.m. this morning from SFAlert, claiming that "the National Weather Service reports/updated a High Wind Watch for the San Francisco area." Strange. We
misc Second Bay Area Storm Fails to Deliver, Critics Claim Even though more power outages are affecting PG&E customers in the Bay Area due to today's storm (chortle), you would hardly believe it. Where's the vim and vigor of last week's