According to weather experts, the Bay Area is facing very cold temperatures that are expected to last through the weekend and into early next week. There is also a chance of rain in the forecast.
However, the recent cold snap isn’t surprising given that “this is climatologically our coldest time of the year,” National Weather Service analyst Dalton Behringer told SFGATE. Temperatures in the Bay Area are expected to go up until Thursday, but they will drop again right after that, according to the weather service.
In San Francisco, temperatures are expected to fall to the low 40s at night this week. On Sunday, it might get as low as 38 degrees in Oakland. Behringer said that the coldest places, including the North Bay and parts of East and South Bay, might experience freezing weather from Sunday to Tuesday morning next week.
At first, it didn’t look like rain would be in the forecast, but now there’s a small chance that Oakland and San Francisco might get rain on Saturday night before 10 p.m., and places in South Bay, like San Jose, could see rain after 10 p.m.
The rain would be appreciated because Behringer had mentioned to SFGATE that January is likely one of the driest on record. If the Bay Area doesn’t get any rain until February, San Francisco will have only 0.19 inches of rain for January. This would make it the driest January since 2014 and 2015, when the area had just 0.06 inches of rain in January 2014 and no rain at all in January 2015.
It’s best not to get too excited about the rainy weather right now. Behringer mentioned that it might change a lot in the next few days.
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