Rain Returns Late Tuesday

Our next weather system will be here late in the day on Tuesday. Ahead of it, expect the stream of high cloudcover to continue! Most areas will stay dry until Tuesday afternoon with the chance of isolated, light showers begins to increase. It’s not impossible for you to see something earlier, you’ll just have to be lucky! Into the evening, light to briefly moderate rain will spread around the bay and then become more scattered to isolated as it heads inland into early Wednesday morning. Some drizzle/sprinkles may linger into the Wednesday morning commute, but dry conditions will then return through Thursday.

AIR QUALITY: Good

Overnight: High clouds slowly increasing. Low clouds/fog possible in eastern & southern valleys. Lows will be slightly warm for this time of year with mid 40s on the coast and upper 30s to mid 40s inland.

Tuesday: Mostly cloudy with an isolated shower possible early in the day. Highs in the upper 50s to low 60s—a few mid 60s in the south. Light to moderate rain moves in around the bay late.

Wednesday: Showers taper off into Wednesday morning with some eastern/southern valleys not seeing much at all. Drizzle may linger past sunrise on the coast/bay, however. Then, partial clearing and warmer with highs in the upper 50s to mid 60s.

Extended: Temperatures warm above normal on Thursday under mostly sunny skies. We’ll then enter a period of more active weather starting on Friday. The Friday system, which will arrive late in the day, will have moderate rain and gusty southerly winds. The next system arrives late Saturday into Sunday with another following on Monday. It’s hard to know exactly what to expect from these additional systems yet, so stay tuned .

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This week's normal temperatures:
--COASTAL CITIES--
LOW: 43ºF
HIGH: 60ºF

--INLAND CITIES--
LOW: 38ºF
HIGH: 62ºF
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-The outlook from the Climate Prediction Center for January 23^rd – 29^th calls for the likelihood of ABOVE normal temperatures and ABOVE normal precipitation.

- ENSO (El Niño/La Niña) STATUS: El Niño Advisory
- ENSO Forecast: Strong to Very Strong El Niño expected this winter.
-Area drought status: Currently drought-free