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Caltrain (reporting mark JPBX) is a commuter rail line in California, serving the San Francisco Peninsula and Santa Clara Valley (Silicon Valley).The southern terminus is in San Jose at the Tamien station with weekday rush hour service running as far as Gilroy.
One of the bomb cyclones related to the floods on January 4. Oakland set a record for 24 hour rainfall at 4.75 in (121 mm) of rain on December 31, while San Francisco recorded its second wettest day with 5.46 in (139 mm) of rain.
The atrium of the Hyatt Regency San Francisco. The San Francisco Chronicle's architecture critic John King has described the 1973 building as a "temple of hermetic urbanism" in a "self-contained sci-fi" style that by 2016 had become "dated", albeit remaining "still visually dazzling, in a futuristic sort of way."
Timeline of the San Francisco Earthquake April 18 – 23, 1906 Archived March 3, 2016, at the Wayback Machine – The Virtual Museum of the City of San Francisco; JB Monaco Photography – Photographic account of earthquake and fire aftermath from well-known North Beach photographer; Tsunami Record from the Great 1906 San Francisco Earthquake ...
Tule fog is a radiation fog, which condenses when there is a high relative humidity (typically after a heavy rain), calm winds, and rapid cooling during the night. The nights are longer in the winter months, which allows an extended period of ground cooling, and thereby a pronounced temperature inversion at a low altitude.
UTC time: 1957-03-22 19:44:22: ISC event: 886234: USGS-ANSSComCat: Local date: March 22, 1957 (): Local time: 11:44:22 PST [1]: Magnitude: 5.7 M w [1]: Depth: 15 km (9.3 mi) [1] Epicenter: 1]: Type: Oblique-slip: Areas affected: San Francisco Bay Area Northern California United States: Total damage: $1 million [2]: Max. intensity: MMI VII (Very strong) [2]: Peak acceleration: 0.18 g [3 ...
San Francisco's first skyscraper was the 218-foot (66 m) Chronicle Building, which was completed in 1890. M. H. de Young, owner of the San Francisco Chronicle, commissioned Burnham and Root to design a signature tower to convey the power of his newspaper. [4]
The January 2010 North American winter storms were a group of seven powerful winter storms that affected Canada and the Contiguous United States, particularly California.The storms developed from the combination of a strong El Niño episode, a powerful jet stream, [7] and an atmospheric river that opened from the West Pacific Ocean into the Western Seaboard.