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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">On a typical hot day in the Bay Area, the sun heats the land. Hot air rises. Cooler air comes from the ocean or the bay. It's typically cool and windy next to the water; much hotter away from the water.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Now we get to details, like Alpine Road is valley that can funnel air.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">There are websites that map winds. Of interest to windsurfers, sailors, kite flyers and lots of other outdoor activities.. Next time you notice this temperature change, see if windy.com shows something interesting in the wind pattern around Menlo Park.<br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div></div><div id="ydpac4aa280yahoo_quoted_8850605985" class="ydpac4aa280yahoo_quoted">
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On Sunday, September 15, 2019, 11:23:57 PM PDT, Rick Moen <rick@linuxmafia.com> wrote:
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<div>Quoting Paul Zander (<a shape="rect" href="mailto:paulz@ieee.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">paulz@ieee.org</a>):<br clear="none"><br clear="none">> Could you describe your route? Do you take Junipero Sierra, aka<br clear="none">> Alameda de las Pulgas? or the part of Sand Hill previously called<br clear="none">> Willow Road? That is to say are you traveling away from the El<br clear="none">> Camino or parallel?<br clear="none"><br clear="none">The most recent time I noticed this, I'd been going north from Santa<br clear="none">Clara County on I-280 (with a window halfway down so as to not waste fuel<br clear="none">on air conditioning), and exited eastbound onto Alpine Road. Right<br clear="none">around there, the temp lifted dramatically and remained distinctly<br clear="none">milder all the way home.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Some times, I've seen similar things on the Junipero Serra approach you<br clear="none">mentioned, sometimes on the El Camino Real or Central Expressway / Alma<br clear="none">approach, and sometimes on Middlefield Road. It's not always<br clear="none">consistently in the same places exactly, as you would expect.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">I don't recall noticing the effect on any route perpendicular to the Bay<br clear="none">such as Sand Hill Road.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">> Have you noticed this at various times of day or maybe only in the<br clear="none">> evening when the sun is low in the sky?<br clear="none"><br clear="none">I generally have noticed this in the hot afternoons with the sun up<br clear="none">high; I've certainly not tried to study this consistently. Heck, I<br clear="none">haven't even tried bringing along a thermometre. <div class="ydpac4aa280yqt6541760549" id="ydpac4aa280yqtfd06962"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">_______________________________________________<br clear="none">conspire mailing list<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="mailto:conspire@linuxmafia.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">conspire@linuxmafia.com</a><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="http://linuxmafia.com/mailman/listinfo/conspire" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://linuxmafia.com/mailman/listinfo/conspire</a><br clear="none"></div></div>
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