Get ready for wet, windy weather in the Bay Area

Wind and rain are coming for the Bay Space on Sunday and Monday, with a storm forecasters predict will dump extra rain than the area sometimes will get throughout the complete month of September.

The rain is predicted to start out within the North Bay as early as Saturday night and unfold throughout many of the Bay Space by round 5 a.m. Sunday — falling pretty steadily all day Sunday and into Monday morning, stated Brooke Bingaman, a meteorologist with the Nationwide Climate Service in Monterey.

“So Monday morning commuters want to ensure they're cautious and go away additional time,” Bingaman stated. Drivers ought to verify their windshield wipers and exchange them in the event that they’ve develop into cracked throughout the latest sizzling, dry climate, she stated.

In some locations within the Bay Space, rainfall totals from this storm are anticipated to quadruple common totals for the complete month of September. The storm is forecast to drop an inch of rain in downtown San Francisco — a metropolis that, on common, sees only a quarter inch for all of September. Oakland is forecast to see between half an inch and three-quarters of an inch, in comparison with its common September whole of 0.23 inches. San Jose is predicted to see about half an inch, in comparison with its common September whole of 0.22 inches.

And it'll get windy. The Nationwide Climate Service issued a wind advisory for the coast and coastal hills from Sonoma right down to Huge Sur — an space that features San Francisco. Sustained winds are forecasted to be between 20 and 30 MPH from 6 a.m. Sunday via 4 a.m. Monday, with gusts reaching as much as 45 MPH. The remainder of the Bay Space, together with Oakland and San Jose, will probably be breezy, however will not be underneath a wind advisory.

There's additionally an opportunity of thunderstorms for Sunday and Monday afternoon and night, Bingaman stated. But when any lightning strikes begin a fireplace, there ought to be sufficient rain to forestall it from spreading, she stated.

For a lot of, the rain will probably be a welcome sight after such a chronic dry spell. However Bingaman warned folks shouldn’t get too excited but — it’s too quickly to inform if the moist climate will proceed lengthy sufficient to ease our drought.

“One storm alone isn’t going to be sufficient to make an enormous dent within the drought,” Bingaman stated, “contemplating we’ve been in drought for a number of years.”

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