Everyone’s talking about this new 5,000-word New York Times love letter and research piece about the San Francisco fog, but it describes our fair fog’s cloudy future, as evidence indicates the fog has decreased by a third over the last 50 years or so. It trots out our Twitter personalities who impersonate the fog, our quirky commercial products that try to monetize the fog, and some recognizable SF names describing highly recognizable fog phenomena. Scientists have tried the idea of catching that fog and turning it into water on so-called “fog farms” in these places to address water shortages. (We’ve tried this in San Francisco, too.) These alleged decreases in fog are bedeviling issue, though, because there is no agreed-upon gauge for measuring fog or its volumes.

Source: New York Times September 15, 2022 22:11 UTC