San Jose breaks weather record by four degrees

Thanks to a strategically placed hole in the clouds, San Jose reached a toasty 80 degrees on Saturday, breaking a 58-year-old weather record for the date by four degrees.

Saturday’s high, which was set at 2 p.m., was the highest temperature ever on Nov. 25 since records started being kept in 1893.

And as sometimes happens in the late fall, San Jose temperatures topped other Bay Area cities considered regional hot spots. It was only 67 degrees in Concord, 70 in Livermore and 70 in Santa Rosa.

Among cities in the region, only Gilroy — at 78 degrees — also set a high for the day. It also just edged past a record set in 1959, when the garlic capital of the world hit 77 degrees.

“We still a have lingering area of high pressure and warm air over the area,” said meteorologist Steve Anderson of the National Weather Service in Monterey.

He said San Jose was warmer simply because it got more sun.

Across the rest of the Bay Area, he said, “the clouds moved in just at the right time to stop the heating.” But above San Jose there was a break in the clouds.

More typical seasonal weather will return to the Bay Area on Sunday, with a storm rolling in that will bring rain to the North Bay in the morning and move to the South Bay by the afternoon, Anderson said. Clouds and rain will hang around through Monday, with dry weather resuming Tuesday.

Throughout the Bay Area, temperatures should be mild for the next seven days — in the mid-60s during the day and dipping to 45-50 degrees overnight, Anderson said. It will also be breezy, with winds from 15 to 20 miles per hour.