Climate
San Francisco is fogged in and the fog is pouring over the Golden Gate Bridge.
A foggy night in Berkeley.
While these fogs can be cool and damp, the sunlight breaking through often creates striking lighting effects, casting a warm glow and causing objects to shimmer, shine and sparkle.
A finger of fog moving across the bay towards Berkeley.
Berkeley’s climate is significantly influenced by coastal fog and the Bay Area’s unique geography. When warm air from the Pacific Ocean encounters cold coastal current, moisture condenses into fog. This fog typically envelops low-lying cities like San Francisco but is largely blocked from moving inland by coastal mountains. However, the Golden Gate strait—a one-mile-wide gap in these mountains—allows a narrow band of fog to penetrate the bay. This fog travels over the bay and reaches the Berkeley Hills, where it spreads over the city.
One mile gap at the Golden Gate strait where the fog can pour into the bay.
This morning fog is also the reason for the diversity of trees and plants making Berkeley ecologically green.
In considering AshbyPlace's historical value, the local climate plays a subtle but important role. It has preserved not only structures and gardens, but also a way of life reflective of Berkeley's mid-century civic vision-making AshbyPlace a product of both human planning and environmental harmony.
