Maybe Not So Super Super-Bowl Weather - Golden Gate Weather Services

Maybe Not So Super Super-Bowl Weather

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Maybe More Soupy Than Super

The first week of February 2016 will see the eyes of the world focused on the San Francisco Bay Area for Super Bowl 50 on February 7, 2016. If past Februarys, and the recent impacts of El Niño, are any indication, the odds are pretty high of that some of the outside activities will be wet.

During the first week of February, over the past 49 years, it has rained on average two days with an average rainfall amount of 0.81 inches at San Jose Airport, just 3 miles away from Levi Stadium in Santa Clara, CA. That rained occurred on 37 of the 49 weeks, or 76% of the time. It is also interesting to note that the two wettest Super Bowl Weeks were during the strong El Nino events of 1997-98 (6.76") and 1972-73 (2.23").

Over the past 49 February 7ths it has rained 20 times, or 41% of the time. And on those occasions the average rainfall has been 0.22 inches.

The last time the Super Bowl was played in the San Francisco Bay Area was Super Bowl 19 on January 20, 1985. That day was clear, cool and crisp with a high temperatures of only 52 degrees. And the San Francisco 49ers beat the Miami Dolphins, 38-16.

The average high temperature during the 1st week of February is 61 degrees and the average low is 43.

Jan Null, CCM
Golden Gate Weather Services
http://ggweather.com

Jan Null

Jan Null has been a meteorologist in the San Francisco Bay Area for 50 years and is frequently seen on television and heard on the radio when weather is in the news. Twenty-six years ago he founded a consulting firm, Golden Gate Weather Services, after a 24-year career with the National Weather Service. Mr. Null is a Bay Area native, having grown up in Oakland and lived in the East Bay until 2006 when he moved to Saratoga. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in Atmospheric Science from UC Davis in 1974 and his Master’s from San Jose State in 1992. Jan joined the National Weather Service in 1974 at the Weather Service Forecast Office in Redwood City. He worked as an operational forecaster throughout his career, including 13 years as Lead Forecaster. During his tenure at the NWS he also served as Meteorologist-in-Charge at the Center Weather Service Unit at the FAA’s Air Traffic Control Center in Fremont. He also did extensive research into the relationship between El Niño, La Niña and California rainfall and throughout his career he was a frequent media spokesperson for the agency. Jan has also been an Adjunct Professor and Lecturer at San Francisco and San Jose State Universities where he taught one evening a week for nearly 30 years. In 1998, Jan founded Golden Gate Weather Services, a consulting firm that specializes in forensic meteorology. He frequently serves as an expert witness in litigation where the weather is a factor. This often involves reconstructing past weather events or as his wife refers to it: “CSI Weather”. Mr. Null is also an internationally recognized expert of the sad topic of the heatstroke deaths of children in vehicles. After the death of a child left a vehicle in San Jose in 2001 he did a comprehensive study of vehicle temperatures that was ultimately published in Pediatrics in 2005. Since that time he has spoken at numerous national conferences and worked with a wide variety of child safety advocacy groups and agencies to raise awareness about the dozens of children who die from hyperthermia in hot vehicles each year. This data continues to be updated at NOHeatstroke.org. In his spare time he is a serious amateur photographer, specializing in wildlife and landscapes. Jan is married to Susan Hollis, a lifelong Saratoga resident and Realtor. He has two adult children in the Bay Area and the world’s most adorable 9-year old granddaughter and 4-year grandson.

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