Significant rainfall, below-freezing temps in Bay Area forecast - SFGATE

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As December nears, the San Francisco Bay Area is looking astatine different accidental of important rainfall and gusty conditions, with the anticipation of frost and below-freezing temperatures apt successful the North Bay and inland valleys. 

“Overall, it's somewhat cooler than normal,” Dalton Behringer, a meteorologist for the National Weather Service, told SFGATE connected Sunday morning. Compared to past year, helium added, “We’re moving 5 to six degrees beneath mean for precocious temperatures for San Francisco.”

Temperatures successful Sonoma and Napa counties are forecast to dip toward the precocious 20s to debased 30s this week. Meanwhile, the Santa Clara Valley is expected to driblet to the precocious 30s portion evening temperatures crossed the bay shoreline volition autumn betwixt the precocious 30s and debased 40s. 

“We don’t privation the acold to instrumentality radical by surprise,” Behringer said. “We’re successful the past week of November, truthful we expect it, but since it is simply a small beneath mean and nearing the freezing people successful immoderate locations, don't fto it drawback you disconnected guard.” 

The coldest temperatures and chances for frost are astir apt connected Tuesday and Wednesday mornings, the upwind work said. Behringer added that frost is besides apt successful cities similar Concord and Livermore. 

Frost and freezing temperatures are imaginable for immoderate inland areas this week. Make definite to support people, pets, plants, and pipes. Rain chances are looking a small amended for precocious week into the weekend. Watch this abstraction for aboriginal details... #cawx pic.twitter.com/gxNkmJP6Bv

— NWS Bay Area 🌉 (@NWSBayArea) November 27, 2022

Later successful the week, the portion volition get 2 shots of rain, with the archetypal arriving Thursday greeting into Friday morning, followed by different soaking Saturday greeting into Sunday morning. The strategy is expected to commencement successful the North Bay and volition dispersed southward passim the region. 

“There’s inactive a small spot of uncertainty regarding however overmuch we’ll spot successful circumstantial areas, but what I tin accidental is that upwards of an inch is not retired of the question crossed the committee for astir people,” Behringer said. “As for now, it looks similar a bully rainmaker.”

The coastline volition besides acquisition peculiarly breezy conditions connected Thursday, with upwind speeds reaching up to 35 miles per hour.

“It won’t beryllium thing terribly damaging, from what it looks similar astatine this point, but it decidedly could beryllium thing wherever we could spot pieces of trees down oregon airy impacts,” Behringer said. 

This forecast, including circumstantial rainfall totals, is taxable to change, and radical are encouraged to cheque with the National Weather Service for updates.

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