Warming temperatures thanks to offshore winds mean the normally cold and foggy San Francisco should feel more like the South or East Bay at the start of the workweek. As an added bonus, clear nighttime skies are expected, allowing residents to glimpse a celestial marvel this week.
Parts of the city are expected to hit 85 degrees on Monday, the same high listed for warmer cities like Oakland and San Jose. The normally ever-present marine layer will also likely be weakened for a few days, as warm winds from the interior push out past the coast.
“We’re getting some what we call offshore flow, so meaning wind that’s going from land out towards the ocean,” Brian Garcia, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service, told SFGATE. “As it comes down the Santa Cruz Mountains out towards the coast, that air actually compresses under the pressure of the atmosphere.”…