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.
SF News Cold Front This Weekend Could Bring First Snow to Sierra Haven't you felt it? A cold front is moving in over the Bay Area that has chilled things significantly over the past 36 hours, and its bringing with it overnight lows in the chilly lower 50s in San Francisco.
SF News North Bay to See Much-Needed Rainfall This Weekend Fire season is far from over, but a sprinkling of rain Saturday night into Sunday will do a little good for the North Bay.
SF News Thursday Lightning Forecast Raises Alarms In North Bay Much of Northern California is in for another lightning scare this week, amid a summer of unusually frequent brushes with tropical moisture that creates the potential for lightning.
SF News More Monsoonal Moisture Heads to NorCal, Possibility of Lightning Still Remote An area of high pressure over the southwestern U.S. will be sending warmer temperatures our way in the next few days, particularly in the inland parts of the Bay Area. And meteorologists are closely monitoring the situation as some more monsoonal moisture moves our way.
SF News Wildfire Smoke Returns to the Bay; and That Wetness You Saw Outside This Morning Was Rain, Kind Of San Francisco saw, like, two one-hundredths of an inch of rain early Thursday, so does that count as rain?
SF News Monsoonal Moisture Brings Small Chance of Lightning and Rain to Bay Area Seasonal monsoonal moisture from the Southwest is moving across California today, bringing with it some chance of thunder and lightning, most likely concentrated closer to the Sierra and in the North Bay.
SF News Thunderstorms and Dry Lightning Possible Sunday and Monday, Igniting Wildfire Fears The Bay Area may see some rare summer lightning again early next week. And while it does not yet look like a large lightning event like the one that sparked multiple massive wildfires in the region last August, it doesn't bode well.
SF News Will This Be the First Wildfire Smoke to Blanket SF? Lava Fire Grows to 20 Square Miles The Lava Fire currently burning east of I-5 in Siskiyou County tripled in size overnight and has now scorched 13,000 acres, or about 20 square miles. The blaze is hundreds of miles from San Francisco, but it's taking shape to being the first truly major fire of the season in our half of the state.
SF News Heatwave Set to Make Seattle Swelter, But the Bay Area Not So Much A heatwave descending this weekend will make for some hot hot weather in the Pacific Northwest and parts of Northern California, but San Francisco and much of the Bay Area will just have some pleasantly warm and sunny days.
SF News June Heatwave Heading for Bay Area Next Week — Will SF Feel It? A heatwave is set to bring 100-degree temperatures to parts of the inland Bay Area next week, but, as is often the case, it may just be a normal if sunny week in most of San Francisco with a steady ocean breeze.
SF News Heatwave Headed for SF and Inland Areas Over Memorial Day Weekend Saturday may still be a bit breezy, but by Sunday and Monday you should be seeing some warm days — maybe even beach days — in San Francisco and all over the Bay.
SF News First Red Flag Warning of Fire Season Issued for North and East Bay Hills Off-shore winds and generally dry, drought-y conditions mean heightened wildfire danger this weekend, and the National Weather Service (NWS) has issued the first Red Flag Warning of the new fire season.
SF News Shower of Hail in Santa Rosa Leads to Six-Car Collision A hail shower Wednesday morning in Santa Rosa reportedy led to a six-car crash in the western part of the city, and possibly to a big-rig crash involving three vehicles on 101.
SF News Rain and Possible Thunderstorms Move Into the Bay Area Monday A bit more potentially dramatic weather is arriving today and tomorrow, with the possibility of some rare thunder and lightning that hopefully won't spark any fires this time.
SF News Chance of Light Rain Arrives Saturday, But Things Still Look Too Dry There's nothing resembling a serious soaking in the forecast — and even with a few soakings this rainy season is already looking like a failure by drought-relief standards. But there is a dash of rain possible this weekend, late Friday into Saturday, so it's something.
SF News Bay Area Remains In a Drought Following Storms, Likely Will Not Reach Seasonal Average for Rainfall Unless the region gets walloped by a parade of crazy rainstorms in the next month or two, Northern California isn't likely to make up for the deficit of precipitation that our dry November, December and early January left us with.
SF News Cold Front Brings New Round of Rain to the Bay Area Before Another Dry Spell Early February is looking mostly warm, spring-like and dry for much of the Bay Area, but first we have to get past the cold front moving in Monday.
SF News Atmospheric Rivers, Explained It doesn't seem as though the term "atmospheric river" has been in common use for more than a decade or so by TV weather people. But lately it comes up nearly every winter in California.
SF News Coming Deluge of Rain Prompts Evacuations, Landslide, Flood, and Wind Warnings Around the Bay The next round of rain heading toward the Bay this week will be the heaviest we've seen in a while. And in addition to warnings of high winds coming with the next band of storms, areas that saw significant burning during last year's wildfires are facing the threat of landslides.
SF News Set of Three Storms Move Into Bay Area Beginning Early Friday "The storm door is about to open," says ABC 7 meteorologist Mike Nicco, as we look toward the weekend and into next week with storm activity moving our way.
SF News 70-MPH Winds Forecast Monday Night For East Bay, North Bay Hills It's going to be a very windy, potentially dangerous night in parts of the Bay Area as meteorologists are predicting a wind event with potentially stronger gusts that we saw locally during the Diablo winds of this past fall.
