Summer ... Sun and Fog

June in California (and sometimes July, too, really) is foggy. So foggy, that the weather forecasters took to calling it June Gloom. The local paper had a whole piece sometime in early July asking to find a clever name for July when the fog hasn't gone home yet. Check the link... this is an article from yesterday or the day before about how hot it is getting INLAND. (Here's what HOT in the INLAND areas looks like)
You know what that means for Oxnard and surrounding beach areas? Yup, you guessed it, MORE FOG!

Locals now the drill. It doesn't mean we don't go to the beach; it just means we prepare. See the sweatshirt? Yes, typical beach bag item.

Surfers like this kind of weather.
They are there, look closely. Just be glad I didn't say they were seals like my sister used to...
This is what a beach day looks like most days in June and sometimes in July... no joke.

I didn't want you to think I was exaggerating. Some people accuse me of that and more, but that is another post.

Actually year round in my hometown, you can count on some fog. Early and late... and the closer it gets to summer, the shorter the in between sun time gets. Usually there is some sun between 1 and 4pm ... maybe even earlier, like NOON.This is what it looks like in the afternoon/early evening when the fog comes home; that is if you are lucky enough to get some sun:

These photos were taken from the Coast Starlight on June 30, 2010. The train left the station in Oxnard late, around 2pm... and I started taking these photos around 3pm.