San Francisco will also be one of the warmest major cities in America over the next week or so as another Arctic storm barrels into the United States.
Record-breaking temperatures and life-threatening winter conditions — mercury readings and snowfall that tens of thousands in Minneapolis are pushing through to protest ICE and its inhumane, fascist advancements on the midwestern city — continue to constrict the country. Single-digit temperatures are consistently benignly recorded in large metros like Chicago and Cleveland; Texans are contending with an absentee senator who fled the state before history-making snowstorms dogpiled across much of the Lone Star State; New Orleans, though snow-free as of publishing, is seeing temperatures in the low 30s, straining its infrastructure and creating dangerous conditions for vulnerable communities ill-equipped to handle such conditions.
San Francisco is the warmest city in the lower 48 this morning pic.twitter.com/4DnI1eIhXE
— Drew Tuma (@DrewTumaABC7) January 28, 2026
But San Francisco? We’re both figuratively and metaphorically chilling … as we don slightly thicker outerwear to stay warm amid 50 degree temperatures.
“San Francisco is the warmest city in the lower 48 this morning,” writes ABC7 News meteorologist Drew Tuma. San Francisco kept this title until around noon, with temperatures rising into the low 60s in downtown areas, but secured a ranking between second and fourth as the day matured; temperatures in Los Angeles, Las Vegas, and Miami rose into the upper 60s and 70s, eclipsing San Francisco — but not by much, respectively.
SF will continue its comparatively warm streak for the next five or six days, ranking among just a dozen or so large American cities with day temperatures above 60 degrees, as another spell of frigid Arctic air is expected to swallow the nation this weekend.
