Anomalous temperature pockets refer to places where a higher or lower ambient temperature is localized, often for a somewhat inexplicable reason. These areas range from places as small as a closet to locations as wide as a valley.
In the personal life experience, I've come across a few of these strange, yet consistent, anomalies in temperature. I tend to run across these during my daily travels; these phenomena happen so frequently in the same general location that I am convinced that they cannot be flukes.
Here are a list of temperature anomalies that I have personally experienced:
- Bancroft Avenue, Berkeley, CA: Between the corner of Bancroft and Telegraph Avenues to about Bowditch Street tend to have a lower temperature than the rest of the street east of Bowditch. Commonly, one will experience a 1-7 degree Fahrenheit increase in the ambient temperature between the Avante Card cardshop and Bowditch Street.
- 405 Freeway, Los Angeles, CA: The Sepulveda Pass, North of Sunset Boulevard and south of Mulholland Drive, contains a consistent temperature gradient. A traveler will experience a drop in temperature of about 10-20 degrees Fahrenheit travelling south through the pass, leaving the San Fernando Valley for toward the Westside.
- My room at home, Los Angeles, CA: My room at home is the hottest room in the place when the temperature is hot, even with all the windows open and the fans going, or the coldest room in the house when the weather is cold. Often, the temperature in the room will be more extreme than the temperature outside, up to a difference of 5-10 degrees Fahrenheit. I have never been able to figure out why this is.