🇺🇸 Casper vs 🇺🇸 San Francisco

Casper in central Wyoming at 5,150 feet on the North Platte River is an oil and energy city with extreme continental climate. The city has Wyoming's most dramatic wind events — the 2021 tornadoes near Casper were among the highest-elevation tornadoes recorded in the US. Casper Mountain to the south shelters the city partially from southern weather.

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.