The weather during the first ten days of our stay were absolutely fantastic - beautiful clear skies warm and sunny, and we just could not understand what people were talking about when they warned us about the tempremental weather and the fog that San Francisco is famous for. The sun is still perfectly bright and blue at 8pm and it only really starts to set at about 8.45 pm so we really enjoy the long days.
And then the city started showing its true colours. We woke up one morning to a fog so dense that we could not see the houses next door to us. So this happens apparently because the warm air over the Pacific from the coast of Mexico and the cold air from Alaska meet right slap bang in front of us and this causes the magnificent fog. So it takes a while for the fog to burn off in the morning and then it gets quite warm in the afternoon and in the evening the fog rolls back in at an amazing pace and the temperature drops again. I love watching this happen, but Saleem finds it most annoying that its supposed to be summer and the temperatures are so low - I think if there was someone he could complain to about the weather he would!
So while the rest of the country seems to be boiling away in unseasonable heat, we are dealing with average temperatures of 16 degrees during the day. I'm not quite sure why but it seems that I have a habit of finding myself in places that are not truly representative of the rest of the country that they're in ..... first Cape Town, then Grahamstown .... does anyone have any idea why this seems to happen to me????
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