SF News El Niño Finally Arrives; Will Not Save California, Rain-Wise Remember that "weak" El Niño that was supposed to develop this winter? Well, it's March, and it just got here. As predicted back in October, this season's ocean warming was not on track
SF News Weather Report: Big Rain Finally Returns There's a decent-sized storm system moving into the Bay Area Thursday and Friday, and for this we should all be extremely grateful. Your rain dances have worked. It is time, once again, to
SF News Depressing Graph Shows How Little Rain There's Been Each January For 15 Years January will be over on Saturday, and there isn't even a speck of rain in the forecast before then, which will mean that this January 0.00 inches fell in San Francisco. This
SF News Extra Warm Weather And Extra High Tides Arriving This Week Does everyone remember last January when it didn't rain at all and half the month was sunny and 70 degrees? Yeah, well, we're having a repeat of that pattern which is terrible news
SF News Weather Report: It's Really F***ing Cold Today you can expect to be blasted with some really cold (for us) Canadian air, if you haven't been already. Despite sunny, dry conditions, a cold weather system is blowing down on the
SF News SF To Have Sunny Christmas, But It May Be Wet In The East Bay Most of you should have been asking Santa for rain this Christmas anyway, and if you weren't, you're selfish. But for those who did, your gift will be arriving in the form of
SF News This Is Actually The Wettest December Ever It's only the 18th day of the month, and San Francisco has already had 424 percent of our normal rainfall for December, including this week's downpours. El Niño, anyone? As CBS 5 reports,
SF News Rainpocalypse 2014 Wrap-Up: Major Flooding In Guerneville, 101 Reopens Near Palo Alto, Most Power Now Restored Yesterday's big rainstorm, which is still dripping its last bits of wetness on San Francisco between breaks in the clouds, was not as debilitating or damaging as some expected, however joking memes like
SF News SF, Oakland, And Marin Public Schools To Close Because Of Predicted Rainpocalypse Because of the biblical rain* predicted for tonight and tomorrow, the public school districts of San Francisco, Oakland, and Marin have all cancelled classes for Thursday. Is this just what happens when it
SF News Biblical Rain Is Headed Our Way Wednesday Night Another significant deluge of rain, "the likes of which only hit[s] Northern California once every few years" is headed through town in the second half of this week, making me wonder again
SF News How Much More Rain Would California Need To End The Drought? This spate of December rainfall we've been having is good news, obviously, for California's drought, but everyone should understand just how much more rain we would need to see an end of the
SF News Tuesday Night Rainstorm Brings Lightning Strikes, Floods, Power Outages As rain continues to fall across the Bay Area, Wednesday morning has brought a flood advisory, reports of mudslides in Los Gatos, major public transit delays including a flooded Van Ness Station, reports
SF News California On Track For Hottest Year On Record We all know it's been a warm, dry year. And if that surprise beach day a week ago, in November, weren't yet another clue, new data from the National Climatic Data Center shows
Arts & Entertainment Weather Report: World Series Sun, Halloween Rain Bask in this, kids. Today's glorious, late Indian Summer sun and heat might be the last we see even though we all know that November can sometimes surprise us. And that's why we
SF News Saturday's World Series Game Could Get Rained On The World Series is going to be a joyous thing here in S.F. these next couple of days, and should you say otherwise you might get slapped. Or worse. But fans who
SF News This El Niño Is Coming In Weak Sorry, everyone. Way back in March we started talking about the likely event of an El Niño winter season as Pacific ocean temperatures were on the rise. At one point, climatologists were saying
SF News Weather Report: The Heat Will Be Back In A Sec "You can always tell who're the Southerners at a party," quipped a friend. "They're the ones standing in front of the fan." Yes, there was a run on fans last week, and if
SF News And Now There's A Heat Advisory Because heat is such a strange thing to have around here, the National Weather Service has issued a heat advisory for today and tomorrow. In other words, go the beach. No seriously. Why
SF News Weather Report: Summer At Last I promised you proper Indian Summer, and this week it's almost (almost) happening, even though we've yet to have a truly warm night since like that weird mosquito week in July. And we
SF News Weather Report: Rain Followed By Indian Summer Your rain dances have finally done some good. A little good, anyway. Here in San Francisco we got six-tenths of an inch of rain last night, which was more than most of the
SF News Weather Report: Leather and Sun The rain clouds have basically passed, and so has most of the muggy stickiness that kept you from needing layers the last couple nights. You're in for a pretty pleasant weekend with typical
SF News Fire Watch: Lightning Possible In East Bay Tonight A low-pressure system off the Northern California coast is creating a strong possibility of lightning strikes Monday night, exacerbating wildfire fears particularly in the East Bay. Late Monday and early Tuesday morning lightning
SF News Forecasters Less Optimistic About El Niño This Winter Climate scientists are being less bullish this week about the possibility of winter bringing a severe El Niño rainy season, though it remains a possibility. Federal forecasts are now calling for a weak
SF News Weather Report: From Sticky To Hot Haven't you been complaining to all your friends about needing to leave windows open when you sleep and change undershirts twice a day? It's that monsoonal flow we told you about last week,
SF News Weather Report: (Not) Earthquake Weather Been feeling a little sticky lately? Weird, right? This week's odd, unseasonal mugginess has prompted some talk of "earthquake weather" on Facebook, and has been the result of a not uncommon "monsoonal flow"