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Hey Area: Why are Bay Area heatwaves often in the fall?

"Golden Gate Fog" by Flickr user Mark Fischer. Used under CC BY-SA 2.0. Cropped.

In the Bay Area, summer weather usually begins in the fall. Why is that? In this short-answer segment, San Francisco State meteorology professor Oswaldo Garcia explains our "peculiar" climate.

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