The wind is back on schedule
Summer's afternoon Bay wind has settled into its usual one o'clock start.
The pattern is established for the season: grey until mid-morning, clear by noon in the flats, and then the wind comes up off the Bay somewhere around one and blows until sunset.
Three practical consequences:
- Outdoor evening events need a layer. A 6-8 degree temperature drop on a windy evening is larger than the drop overnight.
- Coyote Point is at its best. This is the wind kiteboarders and windsurfers wait for all winter. Sailing or not, the bayshore on a breezy afternoon is one of the more alive places in the county.
- The hills stay grey longer. West of Alameda de las Pulgas the morning fog burns off an hour or two later than the flats. Normal for June and July, and not a sign of how the whole summer will go — see the fog line.
The compensation arrives in September, reliably the warmest, stillest, best-weather month of the year here.