Wet weather set to return to parts of the Bay Area Monday
SAN FRANCISCO –After getting a break from the heat Sunday, the Bay Area gets a wet start to the week Monday as a cold front brings moderate to high chances of light rain in the afternoon through evening.
The Bay Area office of the National Weather Service forecast calls for mostly cloudy skies across the greater San Francisco Bay Area ahead of the precipitation.
Daytime highs are expected to be in the 60s to 70s on the coast, with chances of precipitation ranging from 60 percent in San Francisco and coastal San Mateo County, down to just 30 to 40 percent around Monterey Bay.
Doppler radar of the storm provided by the National Weather Service showed rain arriving north of San Francisco Bay shortly after 9 .m. with bands of precipitation moving south into the afternoon. Daytime highs there are in the 60s to 70s. East Bay and the peninsula will see a 50 to 60 percent chance of showers, as well as daytime highs in the 60s to 70s. South Bay and Silicon Valley will see a 40 to 50 percent chance of showers, with daytime highs in the 70s.
Going inland, chances of showers range from 30 to 40 percent, with daytime highs in the 70s.
Forecasters said a second cold front will likely bring rain to the Bay Area through Tuesday night, followed by wind on Wednesday.
"Generally light showers are coming into the North Bay now and the rest of the Bay Area by early this afternoon," said National Weather Service meteorologist Dalton Behringer.
Most areas will get a tenth of an inch of rain at the most, while the coastal North Bay could get up to a quarter of an inch, Behringer said.
"It's going be a stretch to get anything decent unless you're along the coast or in higher terrain," he said.
After that, Thursday and Friday are expected to be dry and temperatures near normal for the regional, forecasters said.
Another cold front is expected this weekend.
