Light winds and a smattering of rainfall will accompany two small storm systems breezing through the Bay Area this week, with hot temperatures returning for the weekend.
The edge of the first system brought strong wind gusts Sunday afternoon, but those winds largely diminished as widespread cloud cover blanketed the region and brought very small rain totals Monday.
“We did get a couple of showers in the Bay Area,” said National Weather Service meteorologist Dial Hoang. “It looks like the most rain fell in the Santa Cruz mountains — the highest reports were around a tenth of an inch up to two-tenths of an inch.”
As the system moves south into the Monterey Bay area, cloudy conditions will persist, with local high temperatures hovering in the low- to mid-70s for the inland valleys and around 60 degrees along coastal areas, Hoang said.
“It is going to last a little while,” he said. “We do have another system coming in on Wednesday that looks to be pretty similar to the one we’re dealing with right now.”
That system will feature about a 10 percent chance of thunder storms and will present rainfall totals similar to Monday’s weather system.
“After Wednesday, we should start to warm up and by the weekend we’re expecting temperatures to be around or slightly above the seasonal average for this time of year,” Hoang said. “We’re looking at the mid 80s up to around 90s inland for Friday and Saturday.”
Hoang said that while it’s nice to have cooler temperatures during the peak of the fire season, the amount of rain that will fall won’t be enough to eliminate fire risks in the Bay Area.
“Remain vigilant,” he said. “Don’t be the spark that starts the fire.”
Oh no. It must be global warming, right?
We in the US better pay more for everything so the government can pass laws to reduce CO2. Unlike the 2.5 billion people in China and India combined can keep doing nothing.
Climate change is fact, as is the CO2 impact.
This planet has been around for billions of years yet arrogant men think our existence will destroy everything in just a few hundred years ? … that’s the blink of an eye in the life of our Earth, this planet that has been everything from a sphere of molten lava to an enormous frozen ball of ice time after time & bombarded by meteors and asteroids….yet man will be it’s undoing?
Relax, if we make the Earth itch too much it will find a way to get rid of us all on it’s own or maybe our bumblef**k military will develop and unleash a bio weapon 100 times worse than Covid …. we will cease to exist and become the new fossils.
We don’t need to save the planet, we need to save ourselves.
If it’s Man vs Earth….. I’m betting on Earth.
Seems too cold today for an early California fall. It’s more like an early California winter. 🥶
When did Santa Cruz become a part of the Bay Area? And another thing, what happened to all the wind we were supposed to get last Wednesday into Thursday?
Concord is the new Phoenix.