Who’s Suffering, Who’s Not as Drought Stretches On
As drought stretches on in California, local plants and animals are falling back on their evolutionarily honed behaviors for outlasting the dry.
Weather
Winter Fog Brings Quiet Beauty to Bay Area Parks
With all the cold and moist days we've had lately, it's the perfect time to experience winter's tule fog, a different variety than summer's ocean-borne type.
West Coast doesn’t have hurricanes, it has the Pineapple Express
A geologist reminds us that a "Pineapple Express" could do just as much damage here as Hurricane Sandy did back East.
If Acorn Woodpeckers are Busy, it Might Mean Rain is on the Way
Would you believe that acorn woodpeckers have the most complex social relationships of any animal with a backbone? One expert says so. Watch the birds for a while, and you...
Crowd-sourcing the Weather
Today, the online weather forecasting site Weather Underground is launching a new crowd-sourced forecasting system that creates custom forecasts for thousands of personal weather stations across the country, including dozens...
What Makes a Sea Breeze Blow in the Summer?
Summer is the season for sea breezes in the Bay Area, and no one knows that better than the kite-boarders, windsurfers, and sailors who ply the Bay every chance they...
Record Spring Rain, 2006
All that springtime rain may seem a distant memory now, but the record still holds: San Francisco had the rainiest March on record, and the city’s season-to-date rainfall is 12...
