It's a record-breaking day! It has never in the history of the world (or, rather, in the history of weather record-keeping) rained on a July 18th before in the Bay Area.

The .01 inches of rain that's fallen has, naturally, rendered swaths of the East Bay without power, with 40 separate outages and about 10,000 in El Cerrito, Berkeley, and El Cerrito Richmond affected. Basically, the dust on top of the transformers get wet, turns into mud, and the low levels of rain are insufficient to wash off the mud, so the mud gets trapped in the transformer and the transformer shorts out. (A power line is also down at Ashby and MLK. Wow, .01" of rain can take down a power line?)

The skies should clear later this morning, it'll be cool today, and warm up for the weekend.

Gene Kelly singin', and dancin', in the rain.

Friend of SFist, Burritophile's Cate, alerted us to this amusing error over on sfgate's weather page. (Well, either an error or someone over there is pretty funny!)

Stay out of Concord, people. Unless you want a hell of a tan.

Just in time for July 4 -- the forecasters are predicting that a high pressure system rolling into the area's going to make it a sweltering week. So hooray if you like it warm! (And boo if, like us, you're a fan of the fog.)

Meanwhile, that's a YouTube clip of Hot For Teacher by Van Halen, because it has the word "hot" in the title.