Lingering storms bring light rain, snow

Forecast calls for dry conditions and warming trend through the week

Lingering storms Saturday brought scattered light showers throughout the Bay Area and a dusting of snow atop Mount Hamilton near San Jose.

“We’re having some scattered showers, possibly some small hail this afternoon,” said Anna Schneider, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Monterey, adding that snow levels in fell to 3,000 feet in the north bay and 3,500 feet in San Jose. “We got some reports of snow on Mt. Hamilton.”

The storms dropped anywhere from a few hundredths of an inch to a quarter inch of rain on Bay Area locations overnight and into Saturday, Schneider said. Concord had the highest precipitation at 0.27 inches Saturday. San Jose got 0.06 inches, San Francisco 0.08 inches and Oakland 0.11 inches, she said. Santa Cruz got 0.05 inches and Monterey 0.2 inches.

A winter storm warning was in effect for the Sierra Nevada through 6 a.m. Sunday, with snow levels down to 2,500 feet and snow accumulation of 6 to 12 inches, and up to 22 inches in some locations, overnight and into Saturday morning, Schneider said.

“There having snow showers right now,” said meteorologist Cory Mueller of the National Weather Service’s Sacramento office. He said travel is “pretty difficult” over Interstate 80 and Highway 50, and that the Sierra will continue see snow showers over evening.

“Things should improve quite a bit by tomorrow afternoon, quiet weather’s in store for next week,” Mueller said.

The last wave of storms from a mostly soggy week was expected to clear out Sunday and lead to warm weather for the foreseeable future, with temperatures in the 60s and low 70s along the coast and into the upper 70s and low 80s inland by Wednesday, Schneider said.

“Right now it looks like dry after Monday,” Schneider said. “There might be some scattered showers tonight and into tomorrow morning, supposed to be dry the rest of the week.”