SF News Cold Snap Brings Overnight Lows Below Freezing to Much of Bay Area Everyone around the Bay woke up to fairly frigid temps Tuesday morning, and this just a week after the region experienced an extended warm spell and a record-hot and dry October.
SF News Light Rain to Dampen Most of the Bay Area This Weekend for the First Time In Six Months Rain! Remember rain? Between the wildfires and the election season it's hard to remember a time when rain fell out of the sky in the Bay Area — but there's some coming!
SF News After Record-Hot, Record-Dry October, Fall Temperatures Arrive With a Chill This Weekend Enjoy this extended Indian Summer while you can, and in spite of election tension and anxiety. It's all going to change later this week.
SF News Yet Another Red Flag Warning Officially Issued as Fire Danger Returns For North Bay, East Bay Hills and Valleys Warm, dry weather and offshore wind will make for beach weather in SF the next few days, but all kinds of potential terror elsewhere in the Bay Area.
SF News SF Air Quality to Worsen Thursday Night, Improve By Friday Afternoon According to the latest smoke forecast, while fires may get scarier to our north — and while the East Bay hills are under Red Flag Warnings too — the smoke situation in San Francisco will get worse before it gets better.
SF News Possibly Smoky Air, High Surf, High Winds, and High Heat On the Way What happens to the air quality in various parts of the Bay is still anyone's guess as winds are expected to shift and wildfire smoke from either Mendocino County or the southern Central Valley could move our way.
SF News Air Quality Will Not Hold As Temperatures Rise With High-Pressure System This Weekend Air quality in San Francisco and the Bay Area is predicted to slide into potentially unhealthy territory by Sunday, as an area of high pressure puts an end to the nice marine breeze we've been having for a couple of days that's pushed wildfire smoke away to the north and east.
SF News Bay Area Air Quality Clears As Smoky Air Blows Into Nevada and Tahoe Exactly a week after San Franciscans woke up to a dystopian, dark-orange sky, the city arose to fresh air and blueish/foggy sky on Wednesday morning. How sweet it is.
SF News Air Quality in San Francisco May Continue To Suck Until Mid-Week Smoky air looks to be persisting across the Bay Area until the middle of this week, when — finally — some clean ocean air should begin moving, possibly along with a light storm system and some rain.
SF News Local Meteorologist Baffled By Extended Days Without Marine Breeze, Partly Caused By Smoke-Blocked Sun Without any wind, firefighters can tame some of the fires burning up and down the West Coast. But without wind, the smoke from those fires just sits over entire regions making the outdoors dangerous, and the built-up smoke blocking the sun's warmth is itself perpetuating the cycle.
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 Smoky Skies To Last At Least Through Friday As Air Quality Worsens In Bay Area Things weren't quite as orange on Thursday morning as they were a day earlier, though the sky may look like that again before all this is through. And unlike yesterday when ground-level air quality was fairly okay, today's not a day to be walking outside or exercising.
SF News Sky In SF Turns Apocalypse Orange As Smoke From Oregon, Mendocino Fires Fills Atmosphere It doesn't smell smoky in San Francisco on Wednesday morning, just as it didn't for most of Tuesday. Yet the color of the sky turned an even more disturbing, Hades-like orange as everyone woke from their slumbers today, and it's thanks to fires that are burning very far away.
SF News 'Excessive Heat Warning' Issued For Much of Bay Area on Saturday; Smoke May Only Be Temporarily Clearing The latest heatwave headed our way is coming with an "excessive heat warning" covering much of the Bay Area that begins on Saturday morning. And San Franciscans shouldn't get complacent — remember Labor Day Weekend three years ago when the forecasts were 20 degrees off?
SF News Forecast Suggests Small But Significant Chance Of More Thunderstorms Sunday Night Widespread lightning on Sunday and Monday from the remnants of a tropical storm in the Pacific has led to a nightmarish early fire season across NorCal. Now the remnants of yet another storm, formerly Hurricane Genevieve, pose another threat of lightning around the Bay Area.
SF News Lightning Strikes Spark Multiple Fires in Napa, Knock Out Power In Healdsburg Monday morning thunderstorms have sparked multiple vegetation fires in Napa County, including a significant-looking one in the woods near St. Helena, and a lightning strike took out power for 11,000 customers in Healdsburg.
SF News Weather Report: Balmy Weather Will Tempt the Housebound Outside This Week It's hard being stuck in a San Francisco apartment for this many weeks, leaving only to get groceries or booze as few times as possible. It's made a lot of non-dog-owners a little jealous that those with dogs have a natural excuse to walk around a few times a day.
SF News Atmospheric River to Bring Three Days Of Rain Next Week It was apparently too soon to tell Thursday if more rain would come to end this parched streak we've had in the Bay Area, but now it looks like a huge storm system headed to Southern California will bring us several more days of rain as well.
SF News After 38 Dry Days, Rain On the Way to the Bay Area Saturday Morning Some rain is headed our way, finally, in the early hours of Saturday, ending a record-setting dry spell.
SF News Lovely Rainless Early Spring Weather Could Mean Fire Danger Later If you'd like to go sip your rosé and simply enjoy this unseasonably warm February weather, be our guest. But otherwise, you can read about the downside and enjoy it a little bit less.
SF News Winter Storm Brings Hail and... Thunder? Today's moderate to heavy rains in SF came with a surprise bout of thunder and lightning. What's up with that? Also, there was hail falling all over, and snow on Mount Diablo.
SF News Hunker Down For More Rain This Week, The Biggest Downpour Late Wednesday Winter rain will return this week after a relatively quiet and dry spell, and a chilly storm hitting the Bay on Wednesday into Thursday will bring fairly heavy rain at times, and snow in Humboldt County and the Sierra.
SF News Get Ready For a Solid Week of Rain The forecast is calling for rain, rain, and more rain, now and forever.
SF News If You're Planning To Get To Tahoe For Thanksgiving You Should've Left Monday I-80 is seeing its first snow-related shutdown of the season up in the Sierra as big snows arrive with this winter storm. And this means even heavier traffic on Highway 50 and a standstill on 80 Tuesday afternoon near Alta, 30 miles northeast of Auburn.
SF News Weather Report: Get Ready For Downpour For the First Time Since May We had that smattering of rain two weeks ago, but now today, as forecast, the San Francisco Bay Area will be seeing the first real downpours of rain since May 19.
