Mighty strange weather we've been having in the Bay Area this week.

It's been storming around for days, like a fitful colicky child.  Here's the view from our Foster City window, when the late afternoon sun broke through the rainclouds for a mere five minutes today, resulting in the grandest rainbow I've seen in a while, a giant full arc stretching from somewhere in Berkeley to somewhere in Mountain View, with a shadow of a twin rainbow next to it.  Nearly every person on the seventh floor got up from their desks to marvel at it.

Then, THE HAIL.  On the ground.  In California!  I haven't felt that delicious crunch of ice under my feet, on the sidewalk, for a full six years probably, when I left the East Coast.

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ditto in LA!! tornado alerts?! who's ever heard of tornadoes in socal. bizarre
@tina I heard about the tornadoes - where were they?
i'm not sure if they actually hit or if they were just warnings. either way, it's totally crazy!
nice photos!!!
In the Bay Area, there are so many people who come from other places that they can't know when the weather is strange except by studying weather patterns.

If they've been here for five years or so they start to see patterns but I've noticed that even old people who've been here for many years still judge the weather by their childhood experiences in other places.

I've lived in the Bay Area for most of my life and I can tell you that this year has seen some of the oddest weather that I can remember, at least from Oakland.

I'm surprised it isn't discussed more on the nightly news. I assume it must be because all the newscasters and weathermen are from other places in the country and don't want to be considered rubes who have only been here for a few years. So they pretend everything is normal.

It's not just the rain, it's the pea soup fog and cold winds that no longer have the good sense to remain in San Francisco or the too hot weather when the sun actually makes an appearance.

In the Bay Area, there are so many people who come from other places that they can't know when the weather is strange except by studying weather patterns.
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