🇺🇸 Bloomington vs 🇺🇸 San Francisco

Bloomington south of Minneapolis is home to Mall of America — the largest shopping mall in the US that maintains its own internal climate year-round. The city on the Minnesota River valley has the same brutal continental climate as Minneapolis with the added valley cold air pooling at the river bottom.

San Francisco's climate is shaped by its position on a peninsula surrounded by the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay. The coastal fog (Karl the Fog) rolls in through the Golden Gate each summer afternoon, keeping temperatures mild year-round. The city has dramatically different microclimates — the Sunset District fog-bound while the Mission basks in sun on the same day.