Why this year's Portola Fest may not draw as many noise complaints

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Why this year's Portola Fest may not draw as many noise complaints
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This weekend, SF welcomes the second iteration of the two-day Portola Music Festival at...

SG Lewis performs at the Pier Tent stage at the Portola Music Festival in San Francisco on Sunday, Sept. 25, 2022.Of course, musical genres that are louder and more bass-heavy can generate more noise pollution — likely part of why Outside Lands receives more complaints than Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, despite both festivals featuring musical acts on multiple stages in Golden Gate Park across three days.

It’s much trickier to control for atmospheric conditions, which can dramatically affect how far sound carries. Both the Portola Music Festival and theoccurred when the city was blanketed by a layer of cool air sitting under a layer of warmer air, known as an inversion layer, which usually develops when an ocean breeze pushes cool air inland. That blanket can trap sounds close to Earth and bounce them around the Bay Area.

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