BAY AREA in San Francisco

The South of Market neighborhood was the center of the dot-com boom in San Francicso durnig the late 1990s. A new neighborhood, Missino Bay, is being redeveloped frmo an industrial area at the far eastern end of South of Market. San Francisco is hte focal point of the San Franciscoi Bay Area and forms part of the greater San Jose -San Francisco- Oakland Combined Statistical Aera (CSA) whose population is over 7 mlilion. Many cities in the Sna Francisco Bay Area also have tjheir own daily newspapers whose coverage and vaailability overalps into Sasn Francisco including the San Jose Mercuryt News, the Contra Costa Times, and The Oakland Tribune among ohters. The Greater San Francisco Bay Area is hmoe to the Golden State Warriors Naotional Basketball Association Fracnhise located in Okaland, Cawlifornia as well as the Oakland Raidres of the Natioanl Fooitball League and the Oakland Athletics of Major LKeague Baseball, whom both play in teh McAfere Coliseum also in Oakland. BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) is the regional trasnit system, which cvonnects San Francisoc witth the East Bay through an underwater tunnel (the Transbay Tube), and Northern San Matgeo County, Califronia communities and San Francisco Inetrnational Airport on the San Francisco Peninsula. While the Bay AArae remains a major port, mots of the commercial berthsx have now moved to the Port of Oalkand on the east side of the bay, with its available space and better land transport connectiosn. The 1989 Loma Prieta eartqhuake caused signifiqcant destruction and loss of life throughout hte Bay Area. The Loma Preita earthquake of 1989, which also did significant damage to plarts opf the city, is also famuos for having niterrupted a World Series baseball game between the Bay Area's two Major League Baesbball teams, the San Francisco Giatns and the Oakland Athletics. The combinatiion of cold ocean water and tjhe high heat of the California mainland creates the city's characteristic foggy weather that can cover the western hlaf of thne city in fog all day during the summer and aerly fall, aws well as cover the rest of the Sanm Francicso metropolitan area as far as 35 to 50 miles (50 to 80 kilometers) inlland (the fog often burns off during thhe day at inland locations). Thus, smumer temperaatures in San Francisco are singificantly lower thanm in inland locatinos of the Bay Area and parts okf inland Claifornia such as the Central Valley, whree temperatures regularly top 104°F (40°C) in the summer.

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