What direction does the wind come from in the winter/summer/spring/fall in SF?  It's not just off the bay.
90462
The wind always blows in the same general direction.  It usually blows from west to east, except between 30 degrees N. and S. of the equator. There, it blows from east to west.
715107
The same as everywhere else.\n\nHigher wind speeds disperse pollutants.  Wind direction determines where pollutants go.
561174
Welcome to San Francisco, our city by the Bay.\nMy Mother and Grandfather (born is 1887) were born here.\nI do not like the cold summers or fog so I live in the warmer Silicon Valley (Santa Clara County).\n\nFind a job and a reasonable priced place to live:\n\nwww.craigslist.org\n\nconsider being a apt manager for cheap rent..\n\nAlso self storage places often have apt. and they need someone  to live in these apt...for security etc.
79563
Exactly at the north pole.  The wind may not blow always, but when it would, it would always be out of the south.
1178775
Only when the wind blows. They prefer them over wind breakers.  Pyromaniacs are flaming idiots.
1143888
it is probably because of the winds and their directions
1149050
The predominant wind patterns are from the Ocean to land. The water is relatively cold off the shores of all California due to the Japan current. The energy to create storms that move inland are not there. Storms brought in from the East are often dissappated by the high mountain ranges along the California shore, in OC, as little as 10 miles away. The tremendous, fast uprise of wet air moving west dumps the water in the mountains and leaves little to effect the California shore. Due to the Gulf Stream in the Atlantic, East Coast storms are much more dangerous and prevalent. The Great Planes have storms generated by massive cold 'bubbles' of artic air hitting the moist air from the Gulf or Atlantic...California is not positioned to have these effects...we have Earthquakes and threat of Tsunamis instead.
1051487
Wind will never stop blowing because it is a result of differences in temperature.   If it's hot in one area and cold in the next, the air in between the two areas will rush and swirl around each other... and thus you get wind.  \n\nThank you.
1063787
"Wind is the roughly horizontal movement of air (as opposed to an air current) caused by uneven heating of the Earth's surface. It occurs at all scales, from local breezes generated by heating of land surfaces and lasting tens of minutes to global winds resulting from solar heating of the Earth. The two major influences on the atmospheric circulation are the differential heating between the equator and the poles, and the rotation of the planet (Coriolis effect)."
874274
I always thought it was because the wind usually goes down at those time. At least that has been my observation.
749020
Wind is the roughly horizontal movement of air (as opposed to an air current) caused by uneven heating of the Earth's surface. It occurs at all scales, from local breezes generated by heating of land surfaces and lasting tens of minutes to global winds resulting from solar heating of the Earth. The two major influences on the atmospheric circulation are the differential heating between the equator and the poles, and the rotation of the planet (Coriolis effect).\n\nGiven a difference in barometric pressure between two air masses, a wind will arise between the two which tends to flow from the area of high pressure to the area of low pressure until the two air masses are at the same pressure, although these flows will be modified by the Coriolis effect in the extratropics.\n\nWinds can be classified either by their scale, the kinds of forces which cause them (according to the atmospheric equations of motion), or the geographic regions in which they exist. There are global winds, such as the wind belts which exist between the atmospheric circulation cells. There are upper-level winds, such as the jet streams. There are synoptic-scale winds that result from pressure differences in surface air masses in the middle latitudes, and there are winds that come about as a consequence of geographic features such as the sea breeze. Mesoscale winds are those which act on a local scale, such as gust fronts. At the smallest scale are the microscale winds which blow on a scale of only tens to hundreds of metres and are essentially unpredictable, such as dust devils and microbursts.\n\nWinds can also shape landforms, via a variety of eolian processes.
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Wind is the roughly horizontal movement of air (as opposed to an air current) caused by uneven heating of the Earth's surface. It occurs at all scales, from local breezes generated by heating of land surfaces and lasting tens of minutes to global winds resulting from solar heating of the Earth. The two major influences on the atmospheric circulation are the differential heating between the equator and the poles, and the rotation of the planet (Coriolis effect).\n\nGiven a difference in barometric pressure between two air masses, a wind will arise between the two which tends to flow from the area of high pressure to the area of low pressure until the two air masses are at the same pressure, although these flows will be modified by the Coriolis effect in the extratropics.\n\nWinds can be classified either by their scale, the kinds of forces which cause them (according to the atmospheric equations of motion), or the geographic regions in which they exist. There are global winds, such as the wind belts which exist between the atmospheric circulation cells. There are upper-level winds, such as the jet streams. There are synoptic-scale winds that result from pressure differences in surface air masses in the middle latitudes, and there are winds that come about as a consequence of geographic features such as the sea breeze. Mesoscale winds are those which act on a local scale, such as gust fronts. At the smallest scale are the microscale winds which blow on a scale of only tens to hundreds of metres and are essentially unpredictable, such as dust devils and microbursts.\n\nYou could get more information from the link below...
533487
The answer my friend, is blowing in the wind.
147032
It is ovboious that is will snow in san francisco sometime in the life of earth you just may not know it. It has too snow in san francisco once before, you little liar!!!!
692673
Outward from the source at first.  As it becomes larger, it moves in the same direction as the wind is blowing.  Fires also move more readily up a slope than they do down a slope.
1059751
You need to indicate which bay area you mean.  The San Francisco Bay area had Chumash, Hoopa, Yintuk.
137459
Differential heating causes hot air to rise and other air has to take its place so that in turn causes wind.  Weather is very complicated and is affected by many variables.