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"content": "\u003cp>Lilly Pheng loves serving fudge splits piled high with sliced bananas, vanilla ice cream and thick chocolate fudge, especially \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11878134/bay-area-heat-wave-how-to-stay-safe-during-dangerously-hot-weather\">when a heat wave hits\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Temperatures are expected to soar again this weekend. Pheng, the shop’s owner for more than two decades, is looking forward to it because just a couple of hot days boosts traffic to Loard’s Ice Cream in Livermore by around 30%, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Heat waves bring in customers from toddlers to 100-year-olds,” Pheng said. “A lick of ice cream soothes the soul. It just cools them down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Weather Service forecasts triple-digit temperatures for the Livermore area during the second heat wave of the year and the first of summer. Meteorologists expect the heat wave to peak on Saturday with temperatures above 100 degrees in northern Napa and Sonoma counties and inland areas in Alameda and Contra Costa counties. Oakland could reach the mid-80s, San José could reach the low 90s and San Francisco could reach the high 70s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the heat wave approaching, Pheng is preparing for the crowds. 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Closures or chain requirements also affected other highways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/CaltransDist3/status/1764700275129094616?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 7 feet of snow fell in some locations, and fierce winds lashed the Sierra over the weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Jenelle Potvin, Truckee resident\"]‘It was definitely a blizzard. 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Palisades reported a three-day snow total of 6 feet, with more falling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The resort planned to at least partially reopen Monday but warned that delays were possible, noting on its website that “Mother Nature often has her own plans.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kevin Dupui, who lives in Truckee, just northwest of Lake Tahoe, said his snow blower broke, but it doesn’t really matter because there’s nowhere to put all the snow anyway. “We just move it around,” he said Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dupui said residents and tourists seem to be mostly heeding warnings to stay home. “The roads haven’t been that safe, so we don’t really want people driving around,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another Truckee resident, Jenelle Potvin, said at first, some cynical locals thought “there was a little too much hype” made about the approaching storm. But then the unrelenting snow began Friday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was definitely a blizzard. 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His team posted a video of the door opening on X and wrote: “We’ve got some digging to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/sugarbowlresort/status/1763978405094297957\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’ve been chipping away at it since Friday, and had to tunnel down to the downstairs door to get in,” Slaughter said. “It definitely keeps you on your toes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ski resort nestled 7,000 feet up among mountain peaks 46 miles (74 km) west of Reno recorded the highest amounts of snow from the storm that began barreling into the region Thursday and was finally dissipating on Monday as it moved through the Sierra Nevada, according to the National Weather Service in Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the eastern Sierra, the Mammoth Mountain Ski Area was closed Sunday as winds of up to 70 mph made it too difficult for ski patrol to complete avalanche mitigation, the resort said. More than 3 feet of snow fell over three days, and more was on the way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weather service meteorologist William Churchill on Saturday called the storm an “extreme blizzard” for the Sierra Nevada but said he didn’t expect records to be broken.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The storm began barreling into the region Thursday. A widespread blizzard warning covered a 300-mile stretch of the mountains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California authorities on Friday shut down 100 miles of I-80, the main route between Reno and Sacramento, because of “spin outs, high winds, and low visibility.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rudy Islas spent about 40 minutes shoveling his car out before heading to work at a coffee shop in Truckee on Sunday morning. 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And some ski areas were planning to reopen, albeit with delayed start times and limited operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We aren’t outta the woods just yet,” officials at Sierra at Tahoe posted on the resort’s website.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Palisades Tahoe, the largest resort on the north end of Lake Tahoe and site of the 1960 Winter Olympics, closed all chairlifts Saturday because of snow, wind and low visibility. It planned to reopen late Sunday morning after getting an estimated 5 feet of snow on the upper mountain as of Saturday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"science_1991634,news_11977887\" label=\"Related Stories\"]“We will be digging out for the foreseeable future,” officials said on the resort’s blog.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Brittney McClain, store manager of South Lake Tahoe Ace Hardware, after last year’s major snowstorm, they had several people come into the store to pick up supplies like snow blowers, shovels, and ice melt. While they haven’t had as much of a rush as they’d initially thought for over the weekend, she believes it’s mostly due to “people hunkering down and waiting things through.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But as the sun comes out and before the next storms roll in, what’s going to happen is a lot of that snow is going to become compacted, meaning that we’re going to get a lot more ice and that type of stuff,” McClain said. “So we’re going to probably see an uptick in folks picking up ice melt, more shovels, and I would say probably the ice picks, that type of stuff to try to help remove that ice and get back down the asphalt as soon as possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Collins, the meteorologist, said some ski areas reported getting nearly 7 feet of snow. More than 10 feet of snow was expected at higher elevations, National Weather Service meteorologist William Churchill said Saturday, creating a “life-threatening concern” for residents near Lake Tahoe and blocking travel on the east-west freeway. He called the storm an “extreme blizzard” for the Sierra Nevada but said he didn’t expect records to be broken.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s certainly just about as bad as it gets in terms of the snow totals and the winds,” Churchill said. “It doesn’t get much worse than that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The storm began barreling into the region Thursday. A blizzard warning through Sunday morning covered a 300-mile stretch of the mountains. A second, weaker storm was forecast to bring an additional 1 to 2 feet of snow in the region between Monday and Wednesday next week, according to the National Weather Service office in Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Susie Kocher, a forestry advisor for the University of California Cooperative Extension, lives in the community of Meyers in South Lake Tahoe and said it snowed nonstop since Thursday. She measured the snowpack at 4.5 feet today and said the region is still forecasted to receive between 2–3 more feet by Monday. While she hasn’t seen many people walking or driving down her street, everyone around her still has power. She said the snow has been easier to manage compared to last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The thing that’s different about this snowstorm compared to last year [is that] last year was a really harsh year,” Kocher said. “We had somewhere around 45 feet of snow at my house. It lasted all winter long; there were just constant snowstorms, and it was a lot of work to dig out. And it didn’t stop very often. So this isn’t quite as bad as that yet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Colin McCarthy, an Atmospheric Science student at UC Davis who runs a \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/US_Stormwatch\">storm watch account\u003c/a> on X, formerly known as Twitter, said it has been snowing in Truckee for 72 hours straight, and “the sun has not come out once.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Many Truckee locals say this is the most impressive blizzard they have ever seen in town,” McCarthy said. “We have seen extreme blizzard conditions covering the storm the last three days where, at times, you can’t see even 5 feet in front of you. A small avalanche just occurred on Highway 50, meaning there is no west options out of Tahoe now. This is a storm many won’t forget for a while.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Near Lake Tahoe, the Alibi Ale Works brewpub and restaurant was one of the few businesses open on Saturday. Bartender Thomas Petkanas said about 3 feet of snow had fallen by midday, and patrons were shaking off snow as they arrived.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s snowing pretty hard out there, really windy, and power is out to about half the town,” Petkanas said by telephone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California authorities on Friday shut down 100 miles of I-80, the main route between Reno and Sacramento, because of “spin outs, high winds, and low visibility.” There was no estimate when the freeway would reopen from the California-Nevada border west of Reno to near Emigrant Gap, California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rudy Islas spent about 40 minutes shoveling his car out before heading to work at a coffee shop in Truckee, California, on Sunday morning. 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"content": "\u003cp>A major snowstorm continues to barrel down on the Sierra Nevada, which the National Weather Service forecasts will produce more than 12 feet of snow at the highest peaks. Since the storm began on Thursday, nearly 2 feet of snow has fallen at the highest elevations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Weather Service advises against traveling in the Sierra until the storm is over. “Dangerous to impossible travel will continue, especially later today into Saturday, with very heavy snow and gusty winds,” said Courtney Carpenter, NWS Sacramento warning coordination meteorologist. “This brings about the potential for prolonged power outages due to snow and the winds that will continue, and we will see gusty winds pick up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/CaltransDist3/status/1763752043079209270\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carpenter said a few ski resorts clocked wind speeds at more than 100 miles per hour in the Tahoe Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we take a look at our timing, things begin to pick up again today, especially this afternoon and evening, with heavy snow continuing over the mountains into Saturday,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Resorts like Palisades Tahoe, Sierra-at-Tahoe, Kirkwood Mountain Resort and \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/sugarbowlresort/status/1763630478563623418?s=20\">Sugar Bowl Resort \u003c/a>announced they would close for at least Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11977822\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11977822\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/GettyImages-2051157446.jpg\" alt=\"A person behind their SUV on the side of a snow-covered road ion a snow covered town and street.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"663\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/GettyImages-2051157446.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/GettyImages-2051157446-800x518.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/GettyImages-2051157446-1020x660.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/GettyImages-2051157446-160x104.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A person clears off their car as snow falls north of Lake Tahoe in the Sierra Nevada mountains during a powerful winter storm on March 1, 2024, in Truckee, Nevada County. \u003ccite>(Mario Tama/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Other resorts are partially closed. Yosemite National Park would also be \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/yose/planyourvisit/conditions.htm\">closed through Sunday\u003c/a> and possibly later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last night, 17 inches of snow fell at Palisades Tahoe ski resort, which expects more than 6 feet to fall through Sunday, said Patrick Lacey, public relations manager for the resort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can’t see more than 40 feet in front of you; it is pretty crazy out there,” he said. “This new snow is potentially going to extend our dates. But right now, we are on track to stay open all the way up until Memorial Day. I know many folks have that powder fever and want to ride right now. At the same time, we still have three more months of skiing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Storm chaser Michael Steinberg is following the blizzard conditions and was parked near Donner Ski Ranch on Friday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Caltrans and county crews are trying to keep roads clear by plowing them regularly, but snow rates are so high they’re immediately being covered again,” he said. “I’ve seen numerous semi trucks get stranded and buried in deep snow along I-80.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/MichaelWX18/status/1763669171060326859?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Susie Kocher lives in South Lake Tahoe in the unincorporated Meyers neighborhood, where the storm has dropped a foot of snow in the past 24 hours. As a forestry adviser for the University of California Cooperative Extension, she works from home. She said as much as 8 feet of snow could fall on her area through Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This lines up with the idea of a miracle March, where you haven’t had a whole lot of snow, but then all of a sudden, you get a dump, and now you have plenty of snow and water for the rest of California to use,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Compared to last year, where storm after storm piled snow on the region, Kocher said snowstorms this year have been much more manageable. They’ve sometimes produced less snow than what meteorologists forecast. This storm, which the National Weather Service has said will be the most extreme in several years, could be different. When she went to the store Thursday night, much of the groceries and other necessities were all but gone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was hardly any bread,” she said. “I can tell all my colleagues and my neighbors have been busy stocking up for staying home and hunkering down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/UCsierraforest/status/1763649816272478478?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If she runs out of food, Kocher said she has the option of cross-country skiing to a nearby store.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve done that in previous winters when I just didn’t want to brave the road,” she said. “It’s not the end of the world. But that’s if the store stays open. If there’s 8 feet of snow in the store parking lot, the employees probably won’t be able to get there either.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barton Memorial Hospital in South Lake Tahoe remains open and fully operational, said Mindi Befu, spokesperson for the hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Currently, Barton is not seeing an increase in emergency medical needs throughout the community; however, we are prepared to provide care to patients throughout the storm and thereafter,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11977823\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11977823\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/GettyImages-2051128708.jpg\" alt=\"A snowplow clears snow as a car approaches on a snow covered highway.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"655\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/GettyImages-2051128708.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/GettyImages-2051128708-800x512.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/GettyImages-2051128708-1020x652.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/GettyImages-2051128708-160x102.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A snowplow operates as snow falls north of Lake Tahoe in the Sierra Nevada mountains during a powerful winter storm on March 1, 2024, in Truckee, Nevada County. \u003ccite>(Mario Tama/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Meteorologists expected the storm to dissipate by the end of Saturday but now are forecasting blizzard conditions through Sunday and a smaller storm early next week, further complicating travel conditions in the Sierra.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not going to bring as much snow, but it may hamper blizzard recovery efforts depending on what happens this weekend,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carpenter said weather models predict a fairly active pattern with the potential for more storms continuing throughout the week, which could help improve the snowpack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"#episode-transcript\">\u003cem>Read a transcript of this episode.\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Any San Franciscan knows the complex relationship between the city and its pervasive companion — fog.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I both love and get frustrated by the fog,” said long-time resident and Bay Curious listener Lily Drexler. “I appreciate how it freshens the air and changes things up. But when there is fog for weeks on end with no break, that does get frustrating.” [baycuriousbug]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drexler is getting ready to put down roots in San Francisco and is starting to look at real estate options in different neighborhoods around the city. But before she does so, she has one big question: what’s going to happen to fog in the future?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Is it going to get more foggy as the sun bakes the ocean and creates the moisture, if that’s how fog works? Or is the heat and the warming of the planet going to decrease the fog?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Where should a fog-averse city dweller choose to settle down? And, more broadly, what would a future look like with less fog? How do we rely on fog now in the Bay Area and how might its absence change us?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As it turns out, the answer to Drexler’s question is not simple or straightforward. There’s a shroud of mystery surrounding fog — much like the phenomenon itself — that has scientists unsure of what the future may hold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm/?e=KQINC1678544124\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘A Special Thing to Study’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Even the basic definition of fog is not widely agreed upon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a few ways to define fog and they’re somewhat overlapping, which kind of illustrates the complication when trying to define something like fog,” said \u003ca href=\"https://csumb.edu/fernandezlab/\">Daniel Fernandez\u003c/a>, an environmental studies professor at CSU Monterey Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Fernandez, in order to be considered “fog,” this weather phenomenon must have three things:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Air must consist of tiny water droplets between one and 50 microns — thinner than a piece of hair.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>There must be enough of those tiny droplets that it impede our ability to see beyond a kilometer.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Fog is a cloud that is in contact with the ground.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>In order for that cocktail of ingredients to come together, there must be a temperature gradient over a given area. The cool ocean air and hot Central Valley, for example, is conducive to fog formation. (Bay Curious explained this phenomenon in detail in our episode: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11682511/why-san-francisco-gets-so-windy-and-foggy-in-the-summer\">Why San Francisco Gets So Windy and Foggy in the Summer\u003c/a>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I find fog mysterious, fascinating, scary and exciting,” Fernandez said. “I think that’s part of what makes it such a special thing to study.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fernandez has been studying fog for over a decade. It started with him wondering whether he could catch fog — as in, pull it out of the air and collect it as a liquid. It turns out you can. He now has dozens of fog collectors deployed all over the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11968539\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/IMG_6607-scaled-e1701215304411.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11968539\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/IMG_6607-scaled-e1701215304411-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A man stands in a field examining a tall black mesh screen that has been mounted onto a frame . \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/IMG_6607-scaled-e1701215304411-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/IMG_6607-scaled-e1701215304411-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/IMG_6607-scaled-e1701215304411-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/IMG_6607-scaled-e1701215304411-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/IMG_6607-scaled-e1701215304411.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Professor Daniel Fernandez examines one of his ‘fog collecting’ screens. On a very foggy day, one of these screens can trap up to 9 gallons of water vapor. \u003ccite>(Dana Cronin/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>They’re essentially big, 4-by-10-foot pieces of mesh reaching into the sky with troughs underneath. The water vapor collects on the mesh and trickles down. The trough feeds into a bucket that contains a data logger, so Fernandez can keep track of how much water each one has collected — as much as nine gallons of water in one day, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While that’s not nearly enough to offset California’s water shortage during drought years, that water could help farmers with irrigation or assist with state reforestation efforts, Fernandez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fog collectors haven’t been established long enough for Fernandez to determine whether there’s been an increase or decrease in fog over time. And given the complex set of conditions surrounding it, fog is a difficult thing to predict. It can’t be forecasted in the same way that rain can be. And that’s why there’s some disagreement in the fog science community over how climate change is impacting fog.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, Fernandez said, there is a small cadre of scientists who believe that fog is on the decline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“On the whole, I think that we’re going to probably be seeing less fog, in general, and that we are currently seeing less than we may have seen a generation ago,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some \u003ca href=\"https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.0915062107\">studies have shown\u003c/a> that, since the 1950s, fog has declined about 30% during the summertime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fernandez emphasized there’s still a lot of uncertainty in the fog science community. For example, that 30% decline could come from the fact that a lot of cities have cleaned up their air since the 1950s, so these tiny droplets of water vapor have fewer particulates to cling to. In other words, perhaps there’s less of it not because of climate change but because of improving air quality standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other studies completely contradict that. At least one used observational notes from ships off the coast of California to suggest fog is getting heavier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, according to Dan, there’s some level of consensus that fog is on the decline. And, if true, there would be consequences here in northern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What Less Fog Would Mean for Northern California\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>We rely on fog in all kinds of ways, both big and small. One big way is to help us grow food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A half mile from the ocean in Watsonville, Rod Koda grows strawberries on 15 acres of land. His farm, \u003ca href=\"https://www.skberries.com/\">Shinta Kawahara Company\u003c/a>, thrives on fog.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Here along the coast with the fog, the temperatures are cooler, so the berries ripen slower and get more sugar content,” he said on a recent foggy day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In warmer parts of California where strawberries are grown, like Salinas and Gilroy, strawberries ripen more quickly. One heat wave and the berries have to be picked immediately. Whereas, thanks to the fog, Koda has more flexibility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fog even helps with simple tasks, like laying down plastic in preparation for planting strawberries, which Koda’s crew is working on the day I visit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It comes out really nice because the dirt is a little softer,” Koda said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11968541\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/IMG_6582-scaled-e1701215326711.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11968541\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/IMG_6582-scaled-e1701215326711-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A man wearing a denim shirt and dusty jeans smiles warmly at the camera while standing in a plowed dirt agricultural field. A green tractor can be seen in the background.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/IMG_6582-scaled-e1701215326711-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/IMG_6582-scaled-e1701215326711-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/IMG_6582-scaled-e1701215326711-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/IMG_6582-scaled-e1701215326711-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/IMG_6582-scaled-e1701215326711.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rod Koda, owner of the Shinta Kawahara Company, grows strawberries in Watsonville, CA. He says fog helps his berries grow slower and sweeter. \u003ccite>(Dana Cronin/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In addition to temperature, strawberries also rely on the moisture from fog.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Strawberry crops have greater water use efficiency during fog events compared to non-foggy periods,” said \u003ca href=\"https://environment.sfsu.edu/person/sara-baguskas\">Sara Baguskas\u003c/a>, an environmental professor at San Francisco State University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Baguskas \u003ca href=\"https://environment.sfsu.edu/sites/default/files/2022-05/Baguskas-etal-Coastal-low-cloudiness-and-fog-increase-WUE-of-crops-AFM-2018.pdf\">conducted research in Salinas Valley\u003c/a> to find out how strawberry plants interact with fog. Ultimately, she found that strawberries don’t need as much water when it’s foggy and that they use sunlight more efficiently on foggy days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even though the total amount of light that’s used by plants is lower like it’s dimmer, the photons are scattered, and so more of the leaves are engaged in photosynthesis in the plant,” Baguskas said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Koda has noticed that on his farm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We typically have fog in July and August, and usually our volume is up during those times,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He hasn’t really noticed any major changes in the fog patterns in the decades he’s been farming. Every year feels different, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in a future without fog, farmers like Koda would have to compensate. In the future, growing strawberries could require more water, and some farmers might not have the same flexibility they have now when it comes to harvesting. And, for us consumers, the berries might be less tasty and more expensive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And there are other ways the disappearance of fog would fundamentally change the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11953504/the-bay-areas-famous-redwood-trees-are-struggling\">Redwood trees\u003c/a>, for example, are natural fog catchers. They essentially drink it in, relying on it for survival. It’s why they’re unique here to Northern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many other species rely on fog, too, including manzanita trees and even certain types of lizards. That can have a ripple effect throughout an ecosystem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because when one element of an ecosystem is impacted, how does that affect others?” said fog scientist Dan Fernandez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fog may even protect us from wildfires to some extent. The moisture it provides acts as a fire retardant and without it, Fernandez said many more areas would be susceptible to megafires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without fog, life in the Bay Area will change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/BRIDGE_006-qut-scaled-e1701217012617.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11968559\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/BRIDGE_006-qut-scaled-e1701217012617-800x842.jpg\" alt=\"Two people stand silhouetted on a cement walkway while the Golden Gate Bridge is just barely visible through thick fog in the background.\" width=\"800\" height=\"842\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/BRIDGE_006-qut-scaled-e1701217012617-800x842.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/BRIDGE_006-qut-scaled-e1701217012617-1020x1074.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/BRIDGE_006-qut-scaled-e1701217012617-160x168.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/BRIDGE_006-qut-scaled-e1701217012617-1459x1536.jpg 1459w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/BRIDGE_006-qut-scaled-e1701217012617.jpg 1702w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The Real Estate of it All\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In short, there’s no straightforward answer to Bay Curious listener Lily Drexler’s question about fog and climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But here’s some straightforward advice about what to look for in real estate: buy in a neighborhood that you can see yourself living in now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If it’s of concern to people, I would literally counsel them and say this house is going to be in the fog. If it’s a problem, then we probably need to look elsewhere,” said Alexander Clark, owner of \u003ca href=\"https://thefrontsteps.com/\">Front Steps Real Estate\u003c/a> in San Francisco, who has written about this topic before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clark said while he’s no fog scientist and doesn’t know what will happen in the future, his advice for a fog-averse house hunter is to focus your search on sunny neighborhoods. Though, he warns, those tend to be pricier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether or not you want to live in the fog is a critical consideration, he said. “It’s a pretty important thing for people to know because it definitely affects people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousquestion]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lily Drexler grew up in San Francisco. And as anyone who lives in San Francisco can relate to… she has a complicated relationship with fog.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Lily Drexler:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> I both love and get frustrated by the fog. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On the one hand…\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Lily Drexler:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> I appreciate how it freshens the air. I appreciate how it changes things up. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But, it can get old.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Lily Drexler:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> When there is fog for, you know, a week, weeks on end with no break, that does get frustrating.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I feel you, Lily. Lily rents in the Richmond district right now… and she’s thinking of settling down in San Francisco more permanently, maybe even investing in some real estate. But before she does that, she has some questions about fog. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Lily Drexler:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Is it going to get more foggy as the sun bakes the ocean and creates the moisture, if that’s how fog works? Or is it going to get less? Is the heat and the warming of the planet going to decrease the fog?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As climate change alters everything in our region … where does that leave fog? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Where should a fog-averse city dweller settle down? We’re going to answer that question … but we’re also going to zoom out and look at fog’s future in the Bay Area at large. How do we rely on fog now…and how might its absence change us? I’m Olivia Allen Price and you’re listening to Bay Curious.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sponsor message from Sierra Nevada Brewing Company\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What does the future of the Bay Area’s fog look like, Lily Drexler asked Bay Curious… We sent reporter Dana Cronin out to get some insight…\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Curious music\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dana Cronin: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It’s a foggy day in Monterey. At least, I thought it was.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dan Fernandez: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The fog literally has to be at ground level. So I would call this low cloud, which might become fog. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dana Cronin: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is fog expert Dan Fernandez. He’s a professor at CSU Monterey Bay. As you can tell… I have a lot to learn about fog before I try to answer Lily’s questions. And Dan’s gonna help me. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dana Cronin: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He’s been studying fog for more than a decade. Before he studied it, he was an electrical engineer and worked on measuring ocean surface currents. He thought about fog from time to time. But his real fascination with it came to him during a meditation retreat. He says he was sitting there meditating. It was a hot day. And he was thirsty. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dan Fernandez: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And of course when you’re meditating, minds go all sorts of places and this is where my mind went, went into water and then fog.\u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dana Cronin: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">More specifically, he wondered whether he could catch fog… as in pull it out of the air and collect it as a liquid. Turns out… you can.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dan Fernandez: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So this is one of ten of the larger fog collectors that I and a class of mine deployed here back in spring 2018.\u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dana Cronin: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We’re standing next to a fog collector. It’s basically a big, 4-by-10 piece of mesh reaching into the sky with a trough underneath. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dan Fernandez: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So fog hits here on all of them, drips down, runs down this trough. And you can see birds visited, too. Even though I have bird spikes there, the water runs into the rain gauge. It goes through the rain gauge. It’s recorded here. And I have a data logger in there that records all the volume of water going through\u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dana Cronin: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Because it’s apparently not a foggy day today… there’s no water in the buckets. But when it’s SUPER foggy, Dan says he’s collected as much as nine gallons in one day. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dana Cronin: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You might wonder what the point is of catching this fog. Could it be enough to help offset California’s water shortage during drought years, for example?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dan Fernandez: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There’s certainly not enough for us to consume the amount of water we consume\u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dana Cronin: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So, no. But, Dan says, it could help farmers with irrigation. Or provide water for reforestation… which Dan’s fog collectors are working on now. He hasn’t had them set up for long enough to figure out whether there’s been more or less fog over time. And he says that question… how climate change is impacting fog… isn’t that simple. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dana Cronin: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There’s no general consensus in the science community about what will happen to fog in the future. In fact, they can hardly agree on how to define it. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dan Fernandez: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There’s a few ways to define fog and there’s somewhat overlapping, which kind of illustrates the sort of the complication when trying to define something like fog.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dana Cronin: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to Dan, for something to be considered “fog,” it needs to have three things. One:\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dan Fernandez: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So fog consists of water, tiny little droplets that vary in size between one-micron diameter spheres and 50-micron diameter spheres. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dana Cronin: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Your hair is about 100 microns. So these water droplets are thinner than that… so thin that they float in the air. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dan Fernandez: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But there have to be enough of these droplets to impede our visibility to be less than one kilometer. Then it’s defined as fog. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dana Cronin: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you can see beyond one kilometer, then it’s considered mist — NOT fog. And thirdly…\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dan Fernandez: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fog is a cloud that’s in contact with the ground. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dana Cronin: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So, fog has to hover near the ground, it has to limit our visibility to one kilometer… and it consists of droplets between one and 50 microns. Simple, right?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dana Cronin: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And for that cocktail of ingredients to come together and form fog… we need a temperature gradient, as in something warm and something cool, like the cool ocean and the hot Central Valley, for example. As cool ocean air reaches land and warms up, it condenses and forms fog. It’s a complex phenomenon! But that’s why Dan likes it.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dan Fernandez: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I find fog mysterious, fascinating, it can be scary and exciting. It’s all of those. I think that’s part of what makes it such a special thing to study.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dana Cronin: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But it also makes it a difficult thing to study… and to predict. You can’t forecast it the same way you can forecast rain and thunderstorms. And that’s why scientists don’t know exactly how climate change is impacting fog. But Dan says they have an idea… \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dan Fernandez: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You know, on the whole, I think that we’re going to probably be seeing less fog in general and that we have that we are currently seeing less than we may have seen a generation ago.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dana Cronin: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some studies have shown that since the 1950’s fog has declined about 30% during the summertime. But Dan says there’s still a lot of uncertainty in the fog science community. For example… that decline could come from the fact that a lot of cities have cleaned up their air since the 50s… so fog has fewer particulates to cling to. Meaning, perhaps there’s less of it not because of climate change — but because of changing air quality standards. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dana Cronin: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And some studies completely contradict that… at least one used observational notes from ships off the coast of California to suggest fog is getting heavier. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dana Cronin: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But, according to Dan, there’s some level of consensus that fog is on the decline. And if that’s true… there would be consequences here in northern California. Because, as it turns out, we rely on fog in all kinds of ways — both big and small. I’m gonna walk you through a few of them. Starting with something we’re known for. Our food. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dana Cronin (in tape): \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a very foggy day on the farm here. Wow. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dana Cronin: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No, for real this time. I’m at Shinta Kawahara Company farm in Watsonville, about a half mile from the ocean. I’m meeting up with farm owner Rod Koda.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dana Cronin (in tape):\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Can you usually see the ocean from here? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Rod Koda: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yes. We’re in the Monterey Bay. Um, on a nice day, I could see Pacific Grove and all the way to Santa Cruz. But not today. We got fog. It’s nice. Perfect. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dana Cronin: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rod grows strawberries. Today his crew is preparing for planting… using a tractor to lay down plastic to protect the strawberries. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tractor sounds\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dana Cronin: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rod says the fog is actually helping this process.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Rod Koda: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It comes out really nice because it’s last that the dirt is a little softer. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dana Cronin: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And it helps in other ways too. Rod says in other parts of California where strawberries are grown… like Salinas and Gilroy… it’s warmer, and the berries ripen more quickly. One heat wave and the berries have to be picked immediately. Whereas, thanks to the fog, Rod has more flexibility.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Rod Koda: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Here along the coast with the fog. The temperatures are cooler, which the berries ripen slower and get more sugar content.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dana Cronin (in tape): \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So you’re saying they’re better strawberries along the coast with the fog influence or, well, tastier. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Rod Koda: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Exactly\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dana Cronin: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In addition to temperature… strawberries also rely on the moisture from fog… says environmental professor Sara Baguskas.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sara Baguskas: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We learned that strawberry crops have greater water use efficiency during fog events compared to non-foggy periods.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dana Cronin: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That basically means that strawberries don’t need as much water when it’s foggy. Sara’s team also found that the strawberry plants use sunlight more efficiently when it’s foggy. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sara Baguskas: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Even though the total amount of light that’s used by plants is lower, it’s like dimmer, but the photons are scattered and so more of the leaves are engaged in photosynthesis in the plant. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dana Cronin: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So basically, when it’s foggy, strawberry plants are more productive and need less water. Rod has noticed that on his farm. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Rod Koda: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We typically have fog in July and August. And usually our volume is up during those times.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dana Cronin: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He says he hasn’t really noticed any major changes in the fog patterns in the decades he’s been farming. Every year feels different, he says. But if what fog scientist Dan Fernandez said is true, and there won’t be as much of it in the future, farmers like Rod might have to compensate. In the future, growing strawberries could require more water… and farmers might not have as much flexibility around when they harvest as they do now. And for us consumers… the berries might be less tasty and more expensive. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Music\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dana Cronin: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Besides strawberries… there are many other ways the disappearance of fog could impact the Bay Area. So many of our ecosystems here rely on it —todd both for moisture and for the cooler temperatures. Redwood trees, for example, are natural fog catchers… they basically drink it and need it to survive. It’s why they’re unique here to Northern California.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dana Cronin: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fog scientist Dan Fernandez says there are many other species that rely on it, too… including manzanita trees and even some types of lizards. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dan Fernandez: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And so when one element of an ecosystem is impacted, how does that affect others?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dana Cronin: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fog may even protect us to some extent from wildfires. The moisture it provides acts as a fire retardant… and without it, Dan says many more areas would be susceptible to megafires. Overall… the loss of fog would fundamentally change the Bay Area. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Music ends\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">OK Dana, but there’s one part of Lily’s question that’s still missing… where should she invest in property?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dana Cronin: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Well… like I said in the story, fog is really hard to predict. There isn’t a neighborhood-by-neighborhood projection of what its future looks like in San Francisco. But… I did reach out to a real estate agent to get their take on the situation. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Alex Clark:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> A lot of my clients ask me like, So what’s the fog like with what are you going to do? And luckily, I know a lot about like the weather and just all the patterns and wind and which side of the street’s better…\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dana Cronin: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is Alex Clark, owner of Front Steps Real Estate in San Francisco. He told me fog is a really important thing to factor in when buying property. And while he’s no fog scientist… and doesn’t know what will happen in the future… he says the most important thing is to buy in a neighborhood that you can see yourself living in \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">now. \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Alex Clark:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> If it’s of concern to people, I would literally counsel them and say this house is going to be in the fog. If it’s a problem, then we probably need to look elsewhere.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Well, that’s something! Good luck in your search, Lily.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Music\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That story was reported by KQED’s Dana Cronin. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Next week, our December Bay Curious newsletter goes out. We ventured to a Christmas Tree Farm in Petaluma to learn about the year-round work that goes into growing the \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">perfect\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> tree. It’s part of our unusual jobs series in the newsletter. Be sure you’re subscribed at baycurious.org/newsletter.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bay Curious is made in San Francisco at member-supported KQED. Our show is produced \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">by Amanda Font, Christopher Beale, and myself. Additional support from Jen Chien, Katie Sprenger, Cesar Saldana, Maha Sanad, Holly Kernan and the whole KQED Family. I’m Olivia Allen-Price. Have a wonderful week.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Where should a fog-averse city dweller choose to settle down? And, more broadly, what would a future look like with less fog? How do we rely on fog now in the Bay Area and how might its absence change us?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As it turns out, the answer to Drexler’s question is not simple or straightforward. There’s a shroud of mystery surrounding fog — much like the phenomenon itself — that has scientists unsure of what the future may hold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm/?e=KQINC1678544124\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘A Special Thing to Study’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Even the basic definition of fog is not widely agreed upon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a few ways to define fog and they’re somewhat overlapping, which kind of illustrates the complication when trying to define something like fog,” said \u003ca href=\"https://csumb.edu/fernandezlab/\">Daniel Fernandez\u003c/a>, an environmental studies professor at CSU Monterey Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Fernandez, in order to be considered “fog,” this weather phenomenon must have three things:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Air must consist of tiny water droplets between one and 50 microns — thinner than a piece of hair.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>There must be enough of those tiny droplets that it impede our ability to see beyond a kilometer.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Fog is a cloud that is in contact with the ground.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>In order for that cocktail of ingredients to come together, there must be a temperature gradient over a given area. The cool ocean air and hot Central Valley, for example, is conducive to fog formation. (Bay Curious explained this phenomenon in detail in our episode: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11682511/why-san-francisco-gets-so-windy-and-foggy-in-the-summer\">Why San Francisco Gets So Windy and Foggy in the Summer\u003c/a>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I find fog mysterious, fascinating, scary and exciting,” Fernandez said. “I think that’s part of what makes it such a special thing to study.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fernandez has been studying fog for over a decade. It started with him wondering whether he could catch fog — as in, pull it out of the air and collect it as a liquid. It turns out you can. He now has dozens of fog collectors deployed all over the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11968539\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/IMG_6607-scaled-e1701215304411.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11968539\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/IMG_6607-scaled-e1701215304411-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A man stands in a field examining a tall black mesh screen that has been mounted onto a frame . \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/IMG_6607-scaled-e1701215304411-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/IMG_6607-scaled-e1701215304411-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/IMG_6607-scaled-e1701215304411-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/IMG_6607-scaled-e1701215304411-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/IMG_6607-scaled-e1701215304411.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Professor Daniel Fernandez examines one of his ‘fog collecting’ screens. On a very foggy day, one of these screens can trap up to 9 gallons of water vapor. \u003ccite>(Dana Cronin/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>They’re essentially big, 4-by-10-foot pieces of mesh reaching into the sky with troughs underneath. The water vapor collects on the mesh and trickles down. The trough feeds into a bucket that contains a data logger, so Fernandez can keep track of how much water each one has collected — as much as nine gallons of water in one day, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While that’s not nearly enough to offset California’s water shortage during drought years, that water could help farmers with irrigation or assist with state reforestation efforts, Fernandez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fog collectors haven’t been established long enough for Fernandez to determine whether there’s been an increase or decrease in fog over time. And given the complex set of conditions surrounding it, fog is a difficult thing to predict. It can’t be forecasted in the same way that rain can be. And that’s why there’s some disagreement in the fog science community over how climate change is impacting fog.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, Fernandez said, there is a small cadre of scientists who believe that fog is on the decline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“On the whole, I think that we’re going to probably be seeing less fog, in general, and that we are currently seeing less than we may have seen a generation ago,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some \u003ca href=\"https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.0915062107\">studies have shown\u003c/a> that, since the 1950s, fog has declined about 30% during the summertime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fernandez emphasized there’s still a lot of uncertainty in the fog science community. For example, that 30% decline could come from the fact that a lot of cities have cleaned up their air since the 1950s, so these tiny droplets of water vapor have fewer particulates to cling to. In other words, perhaps there’s less of it not because of climate change but because of improving air quality standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other studies completely contradict that. At least one used observational notes from ships off the coast of California to suggest fog is getting heavier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, according to Dan, there’s some level of consensus that fog is on the decline. And, if true, there would be consequences here in northern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What Less Fog Would Mean for Northern California\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>We rely on fog in all kinds of ways, both big and small. One big way is to help us grow food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A half mile from the ocean in Watsonville, Rod Koda grows strawberries on 15 acres of land. His farm, \u003ca href=\"https://www.skberries.com/\">Shinta Kawahara Company\u003c/a>, thrives on fog.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Here along the coast with the fog, the temperatures are cooler, so the berries ripen slower and get more sugar content,” he said on a recent foggy day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In warmer parts of California where strawberries are grown, like Salinas and Gilroy, strawberries ripen more quickly. One heat wave and the berries have to be picked immediately. Whereas, thanks to the fog, Koda has more flexibility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fog even helps with simple tasks, like laying down plastic in preparation for planting strawberries, which Koda’s crew is working on the day I visit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It comes out really nice because the dirt is a little softer,” Koda said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11968541\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/IMG_6582-scaled-e1701215326711.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11968541\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/IMG_6582-scaled-e1701215326711-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A man wearing a denim shirt and dusty jeans smiles warmly at the camera while standing in a plowed dirt agricultural field. A green tractor can be seen in the background.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/IMG_6582-scaled-e1701215326711-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/IMG_6582-scaled-e1701215326711-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/IMG_6582-scaled-e1701215326711-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/IMG_6582-scaled-e1701215326711-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/IMG_6582-scaled-e1701215326711.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rod Koda, owner of the Shinta Kawahara Company, grows strawberries in Watsonville, CA. He says fog helps his berries grow slower and sweeter. \u003ccite>(Dana Cronin/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In addition to temperature, strawberries also rely on the moisture from fog.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Strawberry crops have greater water use efficiency during fog events compared to non-foggy periods,” said \u003ca href=\"https://environment.sfsu.edu/person/sara-baguskas\">Sara Baguskas\u003c/a>, an environmental professor at San Francisco State University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Baguskas \u003ca href=\"https://environment.sfsu.edu/sites/default/files/2022-05/Baguskas-etal-Coastal-low-cloudiness-and-fog-increase-WUE-of-crops-AFM-2018.pdf\">conducted research in Salinas Valley\u003c/a> to find out how strawberry plants interact with fog. Ultimately, she found that strawberries don’t need as much water when it’s foggy and that they use sunlight more efficiently on foggy days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even though the total amount of light that’s used by plants is lower like it’s dimmer, the photons are scattered, and so more of the leaves are engaged in photosynthesis in the plant,” Baguskas said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Koda has noticed that on his farm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We typically have fog in July and August, and usually our volume is up during those times,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He hasn’t really noticed any major changes in the fog patterns in the decades he’s been farming. Every year feels different, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in a future without fog, farmers like Koda would have to compensate. In the future, growing strawberries could require more water, and some farmers might not have the same flexibility they have now when it comes to harvesting. And, for us consumers, the berries might be less tasty and more expensive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And there are other ways the disappearance of fog would fundamentally change the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11953504/the-bay-areas-famous-redwood-trees-are-struggling\">Redwood trees\u003c/a>, for example, are natural fog catchers. They essentially drink it in, relying on it for survival. It’s why they’re unique here to Northern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many other species rely on fog, too, including manzanita trees and even certain types of lizards. That can have a ripple effect throughout an ecosystem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because when one element of an ecosystem is impacted, how does that affect others?” said fog scientist Dan Fernandez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fog may even protect us from wildfires to some extent. The moisture it provides acts as a fire retardant and without it, Fernandez said many more areas would be susceptible to megafires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without fog, life in the Bay Area will change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/BRIDGE_006-qut-scaled-e1701217012617.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11968559\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/BRIDGE_006-qut-scaled-e1701217012617-800x842.jpg\" alt=\"Two people stand silhouetted on a cement walkway while the Golden Gate Bridge is just barely visible through thick fog in the background.\" width=\"800\" height=\"842\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/BRIDGE_006-qut-scaled-e1701217012617-800x842.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/BRIDGE_006-qut-scaled-e1701217012617-1020x1074.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/BRIDGE_006-qut-scaled-e1701217012617-160x168.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/BRIDGE_006-qut-scaled-e1701217012617-1459x1536.jpg 1459w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/BRIDGE_006-qut-scaled-e1701217012617.jpg 1702w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The Real Estate of it All\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In short, there’s no straightforward answer to Bay Curious listener Lily Drexler’s question about fog and climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But here’s some straightforward advice about what to look for in real estate: buy in a neighborhood that you can see yourself living in now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If it’s of concern to people, I would literally counsel them and say this house is going to be in the fog. If it’s a problem, then we probably need to look elsewhere,” said Alexander Clark, owner of \u003ca href=\"https://thefrontsteps.com/\">Front Steps Real Estate\u003c/a> in San Francisco, who has written about this topic before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clark said while he’s no fog scientist and doesn’t know what will happen in the future, his advice for a fog-averse house hunter is to focus your search on sunny neighborhoods. Though, he warns, those tend to be pricier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether or not you want to live in the fog is a critical consideration, he said. “It’s a pretty important thing for people to know because it definitely affects people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-content post-body\">\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lily Drexler grew up in San Francisco. And as anyone who lives in San Francisco can relate to… she has a complicated relationship with fog.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Lily Drexler:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> I both love and get frustrated by the fog. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On the one hand…\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Lily Drexler:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> I appreciate how it freshens the air. I appreciate how it changes things up. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But, it can get old.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Lily Drexler:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> When there is fog for, you know, a week, weeks on end with no break, that does get frustrating.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I feel you, Lily. Lily rents in the Richmond district right now… and she’s thinking of settling down in San Francisco more permanently, maybe even investing in some real estate. But before she does that, she has some questions about fog. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Lily Drexler:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Is it going to get more foggy as the sun bakes the ocean and creates the moisture, if that’s how fog works? Or is it going to get less? Is the heat and the warming of the planet going to decrease the fog?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As climate change alters everything in our region … where does that leave fog? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Where should a fog-averse city dweller settle down? We’re going to answer that question … but we’re also going to zoom out and look at fog’s future in the Bay Area at large. How do we rely on fog now…and how might its absence change us? I’m Olivia Allen Price and you’re listening to Bay Curious.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sponsor message from Sierra Nevada Brewing Company\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What does the future of the Bay Area’s fog look like, Lily Drexler asked Bay Curious… We sent reporter Dana Cronin out to get some insight…\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Curious music\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dana Cronin: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It’s a foggy day in Monterey. At least, I thought it was.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dan Fernandez: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The fog literally has to be at ground level. So I would call this low cloud, which might become fog. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dana Cronin: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is fog expert Dan Fernandez. He’s a professor at CSU Monterey Bay. As you can tell… I have a lot to learn about fog before I try to answer Lily’s questions. And Dan’s gonna help me. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dana Cronin: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He’s been studying fog for more than a decade. Before he studied it, he was an electrical engineer and worked on measuring ocean surface currents. He thought about fog from time to time. But his real fascination with it came to him during a meditation retreat. He says he was sitting there meditating. It was a hot day. And he was thirsty. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dan Fernandez: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And of course when you’re meditating, minds go all sorts of places and this is where my mind went, went into water and then fog.\u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dana Cronin: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">More specifically, he wondered whether he could catch fog… as in pull it out of the air and collect it as a liquid. Turns out… you can.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dan Fernandez: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So this is one of ten of the larger fog collectors that I and a class of mine deployed here back in spring 2018.\u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dana Cronin: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We’re standing next to a fog collector. It’s basically a big, 4-by-10 piece of mesh reaching into the sky with a trough underneath. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dan Fernandez: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So fog hits here on all of them, drips down, runs down this trough. And you can see birds visited, too. Even though I have bird spikes there, the water runs into the rain gauge. It goes through the rain gauge. It’s recorded here. And I have a data logger in there that records all the volume of water going through\u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dana Cronin: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Because it’s apparently not a foggy day today… there’s no water in the buckets. But when it’s SUPER foggy, Dan says he’s collected as much as nine gallons in one day. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dana Cronin: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You might wonder what the point is of catching this fog. Could it be enough to help offset California’s water shortage during drought years, for example?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dan Fernandez: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There’s certainly not enough for us to consume the amount of water we consume\u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dana Cronin: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So, no. But, Dan says, it could help farmers with irrigation. Or provide water for reforestation… which Dan’s fog collectors are working on now. He hasn’t had them set up for long enough to figure out whether there’s been more or less fog over time. And he says that question… how climate change is impacting fog… isn’t that simple. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dana Cronin: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There’s no general consensus in the science community about what will happen to fog in the future. In fact, they can hardly agree on how to define it. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dan Fernandez: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There’s a few ways to define fog and there’s somewhat overlapping, which kind of illustrates the sort of the complication when trying to define something like fog.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dana Cronin: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to Dan, for something to be considered “fog,” it needs to have three things. One:\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dan Fernandez: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So fog consists of water, tiny little droplets that vary in size between one-micron diameter spheres and 50-micron diameter spheres. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dana Cronin: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Your hair is about 100 microns. So these water droplets are thinner than that… so thin that they float in the air. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dan Fernandez: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But there have to be enough of these droplets to impede our visibility to be less than one kilometer. Then it’s defined as fog. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dana Cronin: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you can see beyond one kilometer, then it’s considered mist — NOT fog. And thirdly…\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dan Fernandez: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fog is a cloud that’s in contact with the ground. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dana Cronin: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So, fog has to hover near the ground, it has to limit our visibility to one kilometer… and it consists of droplets between one and 50 microns. Simple, right?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dana Cronin: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And for that cocktail of ingredients to come together and form fog… we need a temperature gradient, as in something warm and something cool, like the cool ocean and the hot Central Valley, for example. As cool ocean air reaches land and warms up, it condenses and forms fog. It’s a complex phenomenon! But that’s why Dan likes it.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dan Fernandez: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I find fog mysterious, fascinating, it can be scary and exciting. It’s all of those. I think that’s part of what makes it such a special thing to study.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dana Cronin: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But it also makes it a difficult thing to study… and to predict. You can’t forecast it the same way you can forecast rain and thunderstorms. And that’s why scientists don’t know exactly how climate change is impacting fog. But Dan says they have an idea… \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dan Fernandez: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You know, on the whole, I think that we’re going to probably be seeing less fog in general and that we have that we are currently seeing less than we may have seen a generation ago.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dana Cronin: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some studies have shown that since the 1950’s fog has declined about 30% during the summertime. But Dan says there’s still a lot of uncertainty in the fog science community. For example… that decline could come from the fact that a lot of cities have cleaned up their air since the 50s… so fog has fewer particulates to cling to. Meaning, perhaps there’s less of it not because of climate change — but because of changing air quality standards. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dana Cronin: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And some studies completely contradict that… at least one used observational notes from ships off the coast of California to suggest fog is getting heavier. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dana Cronin: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But, according to Dan, there’s some level of consensus that fog is on the decline. And if that’s true… there would be consequences here in northern California. Because, as it turns out, we rely on fog in all kinds of ways — both big and small. I’m gonna walk you through a few of them. Starting with something we’re known for. Our food. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dana Cronin (in tape): \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a very foggy day on the farm here. Wow. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dana Cronin: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No, for real this time. I’m at Shinta Kawahara Company farm in Watsonville, about a half mile from the ocean. I’m meeting up with farm owner Rod Koda.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dana Cronin (in tape):\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Can you usually see the ocean from here? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Rod Koda: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yes. We’re in the Monterey Bay. Um, on a nice day, I could see Pacific Grove and all the way to Santa Cruz. But not today. We got fog. It’s nice. Perfect. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dana Cronin: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rod grows strawberries. 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