Wednesday, July 13, 2005

I do wish that San Francisco radio and TV stations would be more specific as they are confusing a lot of people, especially those new to the area. I just heard a headline on KCBS which said there would be 100+ temperatures again today and a need to conserve on electricity. It was only 75 in San Francisco yesterday and probably only in the eighties in Oakland and Berkeley. You need to go further inland to find 100° readings so they err by making such a general statement. Since KCBS is a San Francisco radio station, not a Concord radio station, they should state specifically WHERE the 100+ readings will occur. Many in the media like to refer to our micro-climates in the Bay Area but then they turn around and lump all the cities into one with only one temperature prediction. Yes, some will say such and such near the coast and warmer inland but too often the headline, like the one I just heard, is the one that people from the suburbs hear, and they are suprised when it is not hot here.

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