There is a very good reason behind this well-known San Francisco cliche, “The coldest winter I ever spent was summer in San Francisco.“*
*: For the longest time, I thought Mark Twain had said this famous phrase to describe SF’s cold summer. However, it turned out to be “the coolest thing Mark Twain never said” as the Chronicle put it.
[...] It’s pretty unusual for us to see a beautiful summer sunset, but today we got it! Our usual summer fog did not block our view this time but played nicely with the high cloud for once. The sun is slowly [...]
[...] been unbearably hot this week! We don’t have AC, because normally the famous (or infamous) SF fog would make the idea of having AC feel plenty silly. But, well… Not this [...]
[...] the past, whenever I tried to explain the powerful SF fog to my friends and family back in Taiwan, they would just think that I exaggerated it. But now I got [...]
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Hans | June 11, 2008 at 9:10 am
beautiful photo!
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Delya | June 16, 2008 at 10:10 am
Ooops. I’ve been attributing it to him for years!
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Sunse on 08/14/2008 « Amanda’s Tea Room 阿勳茶室 | August 16, 2008 at 3:50 pm
[...] It’s pretty unusual for us to see a beautiful summer sunset, but today we got it! Our usual summer fog did not block our view this time but played nicely with the high cloud for once. The sun is slowly [...]
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Julie & Julia « Amanda’s Tea Room 阿勳茶室 | September 27, 2009 at 10:44 pm
[...] been unbearably hot this week! We don’t have AC, because normally the famous (or infamous) SF fog would make the idea of having AC feel plenty silly. But, well… Not this [...]
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A Foggy Morning (And I Got The Proof!) « Amanda's Tea Room 阿勳茶室 | November 4, 2009 at 9:18 pm
[...] the past, whenever I tried to explain the powerful SF fog to my friends and family back in Taiwan, they would just think that I exaggerated it. But now I got [...]