Bay Area can expect more rain by early Wednesday
System will bring about an inch or two of rain
A series of weak storms heading to the Bay Area from the Gulf of Alaska is expected to land by midweek, bringing an inch or two of rain starting early Wednesday morning, according to weather forecasters.
Rick Canepa, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Monterey, doesn’t expect the rainfall — which he said will peak Wednesday night into Thursday morning — to generate any records, similar to the rain that fell in the region over the weekend from Friday morning through early Saturday night.
He said rainfall totals during that period ranged from .16 inches in San Jose to .18 inches in Walnut Creek; .45 inches in Oakland to .48 inches in Napa; .55 inches in Livermore to .56 inches in Soquel; and .74 inches in Woodside.
“Typically, these weather systems coming from the Northwest don’t generate a lot of rainfall because they are coming from a higher latitude where there is usually less water vapor available,” he said.
Still, the good news is that “more rain kind of keeps putting that fire season to an end,” said Canepa.
And as the rain heads east to the Sierra this week, he said, it should produce from six to 12 inches of snow — good news for ski resorts, many of which are preparing to open this month.
Until then, the temperatures in the North Bay and East Bay on Monday will start in the low 30s to mid40s, and head up through the day to the mid- to low60s.
South Bay temperatures will start in the low 40s and
move to a high that day in the mid-60s, while Santa Cruz County will start in the upper 30s and rise to the low- to-mid-60s.
Tuesday’s weather should be similar, he said, though partly-to-mostly cloudy conditions should warm temperatures up a bit before
the rain on Wednesday.