Pet Peeve of the Week: as if watching the Weather Channel on TV isn't painful enuf, their website is truly hideous, chockablock with sensational headlines (Landslide Horror! Deadly Outbreak! etc) and of course tons of clickbait "listicles". I go there to find out what the temperature is and I immediately want to take a shower.
Weather Channel proper has gone off the rails as far as I'm concerned, so not surprised that their website is more of the same. The numerous TLC-style tabloid shows drive me nuts; I just want to see the weather. Of course the only time people would tune in for more than a couple minutes is during hurricane season or when there's a blizzard on the east coast.
I use Weather Underground for my weather needs (wunderground.com) and have no complaints. Their app rocks it, too.
at this moment, three different weather sites:
WeatherChannel - SF 65 degrees
AccuWeather - SF 71 degrees
WeatherUndergound - SF 73 degrees.
Given that it's been overcast all day, I'm guessing it's towards the lower end of that spectrum
SF's microclimates can produce wild swings in current temps at any given time. I know wunderground has weather stations all over the city - they prob got a reading from the Mission, while weather channel is out at SFO .. or something.
The notion that a large area is going to have identical atmospheric temperature readings
throughout is untenable. Even geographically homogenous regions without San Francisco's
climate differences are going to exhibit a small range of differences.
"It's 82 at the airport... which is stupid because I don't know anyone that lives at the airport."
-- George Carlin
