Whats the coldest temp you've ever experienced in San Fran? (San Jose: elementary school, college)

[moddestmike]

Just a question, I visited a little town North of San Fran a year ago and it was quite chilly yet very beautiful. Funny name of the town but I'm too lazy to pull my plane ticket atm.

[ImRandy]

Almost a cruel question when it's 102° where I am right now.

[redwoodlvr]

It's not the temperature that makes it cold in San Francisco, it's the lack of humidity, wind and fog. On that scale, I would say it's indescribable. But if I had to take a stab at it, I would say I felt like my bones were made out of ice blocks on the coldest day I ever experienced in SF. July 1991.

[18Montclair]

upper 30s probably.

[sonarrat]

Coldest I felt in South San Francisco was about 40. Right now I'm in San Jose, it's 11 pm and it is still 74 degrees - but more amazingly, it's the same temperature in SF downtown.

[rah]

Back when I was in elementary school it dipped into the lower 30's maybe the upper 20's for a day or two. Nothing colder than that though, and usually never even close to that cold. I'd say 40 is typically the lowest it ever goes...In SF anyways. It gets a little colder colder in other parts of the Bay.

[happ]

I attended college for 2 yrs in the East Bay and would go over to the city for concerts\ entertainment at night. I remember standing outside waiting for streetcars on Market St on winter nights & feeling really cold. But San Francisco is protected from real cold temps by being surrounded by water. Generally low 40's are about as cold as it gets on winter nights & frost is unheard of.

[bayarea-girl]

Low 40's

[Wes927]

I heard that the lack of frost the reason for rodent problems?

[BayAreaHillbilly]

In terms of ever experienced, including the Great Freeze of '90: In SF proper - low 30s; On the Peninsula / inner East Bay, southern Marin - mid 20s; Inland (including the S. Bay) - upper teens. In terms of normally experienced, excluding rare, once or twice in a lifetime events: In SF proper - low 40s; On the Peninsula / inner East Bay, southern Marin - mid 30s; Inland (including the S. Bay) - upper 20s These temps are late night / early morning late fall -early winter temps.