The Beach Motel on Judah Street is the subject of a dispute over its status as a tourist motel. Photo: Tom Prete / Ocean Beach Bulletin

This week in the Ocean Beach news roundup: San Francisco microclimate app, cargo bikes, Beach Motel, veterans honored at SFSU

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• You’re at home in the Outer Sunset and just found out you have to go east of Twin Peaks. By the time the L makes the turn at Guerra’s it’s too late to realize you won’t need both your flannel and your Derby jacket, but have no fear — there’s now an app tuned in to San Francisco’s microclimates. – 7×7, Huffington Post
• Ocean Beach resident Mat Honan discusses the joys of cargo bikes, including the Long Tail style that’s accommodating of toting surfboards. – Gizmodo
• “There’s nothing progressive about funding a bloated and ineffective agency on the backs of small businesses and working families,” says a Richmond District resident objecting to the plan to enforce parking meters at night and on Sundays. – SF Examiner
• The Board of Appeals hearing on Judah Street’s Beach Motel, about whether it can continue to be a tourist hotel or must convert to residential use, isn’t for two months. But the hubbub over the question is going strong. – Digital Journal
• Eschewing simplicity regarding single-malt scotch, the manager of the bar at the Four Seasons Hotel puts a lot of stuff in his. But since he calls the resulting drink the Ocean Beach, maybe there’s something to it. – NBC Bay Area
• Sunset-raised sisters, fourth-generation San Franciscans, now work together as teachers helping children with disabilities. – SF Chronicle
• As far as human inventions go, cheese and beer are right up there with the pointy stick. Now you can get cheese and beer together with Strong Cheese Provisions, available at Other Avenues on Judah Street. Stick sold separately. – SF Weekly
• Veterans honored at San Francisco State University. – CBS Local
• A fungus has been identified as the culprit behind a 95 percent population crash over just a few years among some Sierra Nevada frogs, thanks to discovery by researchers including some at SFSU. - UPI
• Local qualifying starts Monday for the upcoming U.S. Open golf tournament, which the Olympic Club will host at its course near Fort Funston in June. Overall, 9,006 people will try for a spot in the competition, including the son of Evel Knievel. - SF Chronicle