SF News Meteorologists: This Parade of Storms Is Coming From a 'Runaway Pacific Freight Train' and 'Wavy Jet Stream' A "roiling" Pacific Ocean being stirred up by a third-in-a-row La Nina cycle as well as climate change and other factors are making for some unstable and dramatic weather on the West Coast and elsewhere around the globe.
SF News Third Consecutive La Niña Winter Now Looking Likely This may be bad news for recovering from the ongoing drought, if not necessarily disastrous. But we are most definitely in for another winter of La Niña, which hasn't brought us sufficient rain and snow the past two years.
SF News We Are On La Niña Watch For Third Year In a Row, Which Could Be Bad for Drought The last two drought-y winters in California have been La Niña winters, and if a third one is taking shape, that is almost certainly bad news for the state's drought recovery.Climate forecasters
SF News A Pair of Small Storms Will Bring Rain to the Bay Area Monday and Thursday This year's La Niña fall/winter is proving a fair bit wetter than last year's, which is terrific news. And a pair of weather systems will be dampening the Bay Area in the coming days.
SF News Warm Weather (and No Rain) Will Help Ring In the Start of December In the Bay Area We are in for a very warm week — basically a second round of Indian Summer — here in the Bay Area, as we head into the last few weeks of Fall 2021 and the beginning of the holiday season.
SF News La Niña Winter Might Improve Drought In NorCal, Says NOAA The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's winter weather forecast for the U.S. is out, and somewhat surprisingly, it's predicting some drought improvement for the northern part of California.
SF News Second Consecutive La Niña Winter Looms — Still Anyone's Guess If It Will Be a Repeat Dryspell For NorCal Two La Niña winters in a row is probably not great for this drought we're in — when a really wet and relentless El Niño season is what we need right now. But let's just hope for average or slightly above average rainfall, unlike last winter.
SF News La Niña Watch Is Officially On This Fall, and That Could Be Disastrous for the Drought We are looking at back-to-back La Niña winters, and while forecasters tried to keep us optimistic about the chances of average rainfall last winter, we all know how that turned out. So we should brace ourselves for another year of this drought.
SF News Early December Dry Spell Not Uncommon for Moderate La Niña Years; Rain May Arrive Late and Hard The fact that there's no rain in the current forecast for the Bay Area may not be anything to fret about just yet, according to the National Weather Service.
SF News Climate Scientists Declare La Nina Season Ahead, Which May Or May Not Bring Extra Rain to Northern California It's officially going to be a La Niña fall and winter, which could be disastrous for Southern California in terms of extending the dry season in an already extra fire-prone year. But it's anyone's guess whether it will noticeably affect our weather in the Bay Area or not.
SF News Drought Future Unclear As Climatologists Say La Niña Might Not Happen A cooling of ocean temperatures that often comes in the aftermath of an El Niño season, known as La Niña, may not be taking shape as forecasters were predicting in recent months. A
SF News Is Peak El Niño Behind Us? Potential La Niña Dry Spell Could Extend Drought After the wettest December on record and some heartening gains for reservoirs, our luck could be drying up. Yes yes, the winter season promised to us by forecasters as a Godzilla El Niño
SF News Brace: This Could Be Another El Niño Year We haven't had a ton of weather these past two winters here in Northern California, which has meant we haven't had much rain. But that all could change as meteorological experts have officially
SF News Just to Clarify: It's a La Niña Year, But That May or May Not Mean Less Rain We've lived in the Bay Area a pretty long time, but there still seems to be perennial confusion over the El Niño/La Niña cycle like what year we're in, when the last
