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Are you going to San Francisco?

Besides the bridge itself, the Golden Gate - the opening where the San Francisco Bay meets the Pacific Ocean - is also made spectacular by the flow of the summer fog, which is quite a unique phenomenon to observe. Created by the huge temperature differences between the California interior central valley, and the masses of cold Pacific water, a thick band of fog rolls in exactly at the Golden Gate. At first, the band is low enough that usually the top of the pillars of the bridge still emerge. After a while, the whole area, that used to be warm and sunny becomes damp and cold.

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Uploaded on June 26, 2010
Taken on June 6, 2010