Microclimates and Real Estate Districts

 
People often ask me about the weather in specific areas, so it seems maybe time to start posting about microclimate by real estate zone. Of course, micro climate can be very micro so there will be multiple microclimates in each zone, depending on slope, aspect etc., but some generalizations can be made.

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There are various apps, for Android, and now for iPhone, which draw from the wonderful Weather Underground  weather station data, which can give you more or less present time data on weather in different locations. I love the accuracy of this data- I had an open house out at Ocean Beach on an extremely windy Sunday a while back- the swell was up and there were a bunch of kite surfers out. My weather reports kept saying 10 mph winds, but I was freezing in the foyer and watching the kites rip around and that just did not compute. I finally dug into the Weather Underground app or the weather stations, and sure enough, the Outer Richmond station reported 25-35 mph, with gusts to 45, which made me feel a lot less crazy. 

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So, you can use Weather Underground weather station data, on your phone or computer, to compare the weather in different zones. As discussed ad nauseum, there are generalities- east is warmer then west, south facing is warmer than north etc.

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Notice, above, the three different weather forecasts for inland, bay and coast? If you don't like the weather, you don't have to go very far. Since your home can't move though, it's good to choose a climate you prefer when you are making a purchase. In the next post I will begin to make my way across the real estate maps of the city and Marin and blather on about climate, parks and open space, walkability and the like for each zone or town. In the meantime, here's the "super scientific" (not, but close enough) map from heyneighborhood.blogspot.com for San Francisco, and a cool little write up on Marin microclimates here.