Those changes distort the airflow aloft five to 10 miles
above thousands of square miles of the Earth's surface, causing a ripple effect that typically causes major shifts in global weather patterns.
The pedestrian walkway stands approximately 220 feet
above the San Francisco Bay, and, according to an article in The New Yorker (2003), «Jumpers who hit the water do so at about seventy - five
miles an hour and with a force
of fifteen
thousand pounds per
square inch.