Category: weather and climate

It will be another scorcher here in the Bay Area. The water is flat. San Francisco highrise lights reflecting off the Bay have no wiggly shimmer.  I feel no sea breeze at all. The condensed vapor in the predawn light, from industrial plants near the shore, is going straight up and fading to invisible  fast.  It's already 70 degrees F before the sun rises. And while a day in the 90s is all one expects here, in downtown Los Angeles yesterday it hit 113, an all-time record with no real break expected for days.

Sometimes a reporter can leave a mis-impression even while couching a story entirely in terms that are defensibly in accord with what evidence says is correct. Take the story on line at San Francisco NPR-PBS station KQED...