A rainbow appeared over the Murphy Windmill in Golden Gate Park, with sand-dune vegetation in the foreground on the San Francisco oceanfront. Photos: TNS/Simon Peter Groebner
Northern California in winter? Why not? So if you’re planning ahead for a US trip, read on.
Sure, on a recent new year jaunt to the Bay Area, it rained five out of seven days, as an extraordinary weather phenomenon known as an “atmospheric river” soaked the northern half of the state out of its five-year drought. But San Francisco is mild year-round, and as a traveller fleeing Minnesota in midwinter, I felt like I was in the tropics – and there was just enough sunshine to work with.
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