🇺🇸 Roswell vs 🇺🇸 San Francisco

Roswell is famous for the 1947 UFO incident but has a more earthly claim to interesting weather — it sits at the base of the Pecos River valley between the Rockies and the High Plains. The city has a semi-arid high plains climate with significant temperature extremes and occasional severe weather from both mountain and plains patterns.

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.