SF News Uh Oh: Forecasters Now Say This Winter's El Niño Could Be 'Historically Strong' We've been operating under the belief that this year's El Niño winter, given the past few El Niño cycles, was unlikely to be as bad as last winter's historically wet, months-long string of atmospheric river storms. But we may need to batten down the hatches once again.
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 Experts (And The Farmer's Almanac) Already Predicting Another Wet Winter For California Will California be slipping back into a drought come January 2018, or will we see deluge after deluge again, causing dams to burst at the seams, sending trees, roads, and bridges into ravines
SF News Today Is The Winter Solstice And You Should Totally Embrace The Darkness Today, as San Francisco's many proud pagans will tell you, is the Winter Solstice. That means it's the shortest day of the year — the sun will set at 4:55 p.m. barring
SF News First Snow Fell In Tahoe Yesterday The first snows of what could be a very snowy El Niño winter fell at high altitudes in Lake Tahoe on Wednesday afternoon, and skiers and ski resorts are getting very excited. As
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 Snitches Get Stitches: 'Spare The Air' Season Starts Today Don't think you'll get a ticket for tossing another Duraflame into the fire during a Spare the Air day? Think again. Last winter, the air district received 2,316 wood smoke complaints from
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: A Classic Hot Toddy When we crave a delicious and showy version of a Hot Toddy during these (by SF standards) Arctic winter months, we think back on a version we had once at Range, where they
