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 Early Monsoons In Southwest Bring Possibility of Thunderstorms In NorCal Moonsoonal moisture is on its way over California this week, which will bring the possibility of some light rain, and also, more ominously, lightning in some already fire-prone areas.
SF News Is Summer Maybe Finally Here? Warm Weather Descends on SF Wednesday and Thursday You will be enjoying some balmy May temperatures Wednesday, Thursday, and this weekend in San Francisco, and it will be downright hot in the East Bay and South Bay.
SF News Another Mini-Heatwave Is Heading Our Way, After Some Wind It's going to be a blustery afternoon and evening around the Bay, but especially along the North Bay coast, as some gusty winds push through ahead of a new heatwave.
SF News Early April Heatwave Like This One Happened In 1989, When Most Bay Area Records Were Set It's going to be quite hot all over the Bay today, with thermometers hitting 90 degrees and above in multiple spots. But the National Weather Service notes that this may not be a record-breaker of a day for most locales, because the records around here for April 7 are pretty high.
SF News This Week's Heatwave to Be Followed By Extra-Chilly Days Next Week The National Weather Service is forecasting a "roller coaster" of temperature change in the next six days for Northern California, but it starts with some very warm and pleasant weather Wednesday to Friday.
SF News Light Storm With Possible Thunder and Lightning Arrives Saturday Morning Some more welcome rain is coming to the Bay Area on Saturday, though rainfall totals will be pretty modest. And you may see some lightning.
SF News Smattering of Rain to Arrive Later This Week, Followed By Another Balmy Weekend It's hard to complain too hard about lovely early spring weather in February. But We need more rain in the forecast and only a smidge more is on its way, for now.
SF News Next Small Chance for a Whisper of Rain Comes Tuesday After a very dry January and a crazily dry February, chances of rain coming to the Bay Area remain slim going into the last week of the month.
SF News Nevermind About That Rain Next Week Earlier this week there was talk of rain coming next week, maybe on Sunday, probably on Monday and Tuesday, but now the forecast is looking a whole lot dryer.
SF News Rain Possible This Weekend, With More Likely to Come In Early February Meteorologists are being cautiously optimistic that February will bring a return of a wet-weather pattern for the Bay Area, helping to pull us further out of the drought and hopefully finish the winter with an average level of rainfall.
SF News This Is Officially the Wettest Fall/Early Winter In San Francisco Since 1983 Thanks to atmospheric rivers and cyclone remnants pummeling the NorCal coast since October 1, this is officially the wettest water year to date since 1983 — and this is great news for the drought.
SF News Low Temp In San Francisco Could Dip Below 40 Degrees Tuesday For the First Time Since 2017 Some very cold air is descending on the Bay Area this week ahead of another storm system, and all signs point to Tuesday morning likely being the chilliest that San Francisco has seen in four years.
SF News Enjoy This Dry Day — Lots More Rain on Its Way, and Much Snow Up in Tahoe This is the last dry day for the Bay Area for the next week or so, and it is now guaranteed to be a white — maybe even white-out — Christmas up in Tahoe.
SF News Record Rain — But No Significant Flooding — Pummels Bay Area Once More Call it the Pineapple Express or an atmospheric river, but the pre-winter season of 2021 is really coming through so far in terms of some (potentially) drought-ending precipitation.
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 Balmy Weekend Ahead With Light Rain Tonight — And Too Many Clouds to See the Eclipse A light rain system will be passing through the Bay Area late Thursday and into early Friday morning — and cloud cover all but guarantees that tonight's lunar eclipse will not be visible in most of our region.
SF News More Rain Is On Its Way Late Sunday and Maybe Mid-Week Next Week It looks like Outside Lands and Halloween shenanigans should be able to wrap up rain free, but but a few drops may fall before all is said and done Sunday night.
SF News Strongest Storm In a Quarter Century, Bomb Cyclone Surpasses Bay Area Predictions, Causes Havoc All Over While meteorologists on Sunday morning were still predicting large, but not record-breaking rain totals, a storm system rolled in off the Pacific and pummeled the Bay Area with way more rain than most of us were expecting.
SF News Flash Flood Watch Issued for Wildfire Burn Scar Areas Around Bay Area A flash flood watch has gone out for Sunday for burn scar areas in the North, South, and East Bay, with heavy rainfall expected and the possibility of mudslides and floods where things burned in 2020.
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 Santa Barbara Fire Smoke Expected to Move Over Bay Area Friday Smoke from the four-day-old Alisal Fire in Santa Barbara County is expected to drift over the Bay Area Friday and bring us some hazy skies on what is otherwise a beautiful sunny day.
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 More Weather Terminology: What's An 'Inside Slider' and Why Does It Cause Diablo Winds In the Bay Area? Every year meteorologists introduce us to new terminology that was once just the purview of professionals and weather geeks. And this week it's all about the "inside slider" — not the baseball pitch, but the slang term used for a northerly weather system that has a steep southward trajectory.
