The County of Sonoma is issuing a freeze warning in response to the National Weather Service’s prediction for freezing overnight lows Wednesday night through Monday morning, that could result in snow and black ice. Officials recommend that residents limit time outdoors, as serious medical conditions including hypothermia and frostbite can develop with prolonged cold weather… Keep Reading
The atmospheric kitchen is cooking up everything from fire weather to rain and snow for California’s holiday weekend. Each part of the state will get a chance to taste one or more of these weather dishes as they build up on the platter over the next few days. This hodgepodge of weather is being stuffed… Keep Reading
The frigid mornings recently have become part of the routine, during a cold snap that’s affected the Bay Area this month. The coldest lows are in the North Bay valleys, with spots that can get to the mid-30s. Another chilly location is the interior East Bay, where lows could be in the upper 30s. Even… Keep Reading
It’s a cold morning across the Bay Area but temperatures are about to take a bit of turn today. Warm, dry air is filtering into the Napa Mountains and Diablo Range. This air will accelerate as it pools into San Francisco Bay, clearing out any lingering clouds and fog in its tracks. It was only… Keep Reading
After days of on-again-off-again showers across the North Bay, courtesy of what some meteorologists have called the strongest storm of the season, Wednesday is promising a return of the sun. Heavy rains from an intense system that began late Sunday dropped as much as 2 inches on parts of the region, particularly in the hills… Keep Reading
It’s official. California faces a “prolonged, persistent drought” that will “elevate the risk of wildfire across the West,” the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration announced Thursday in its spring outlook that runs through June. Following three-year precipitation levels that were the “driest on record” for Central California since measurements started in 1922, the “low snowpack going… Keep Reading
Sonoma County could be in for more wet weather in the coming days, following a weak storm system that brought light rain to parts of the North Bay on Monday night, according to the National Weather Service. Meteorologists are anticipating the next arrival of rain Friday night. “This will definitely be one of the wetter… Keep Reading
In yet another clarion call to action, the leading scientific authority on all matters related to climate change has issued another urgent report. The message is simple: the world must act immediately to deal with unavoidable and compounding climate hazards. While it is “unequivocal that climate change has already disrupted human and natural systems,” the… Keep Reading
Overnight freezing temperatures shattered several records this week ahead of a warming trend in the Bay Area over the weekend and a possible storm could bring light showers to the North Bay. Records for low temperatures were broken or equaled in a number of cities this week. Redwood City dipped to 31 degrees Friday morning,… Keep Reading
Laura Hinerfeld and her husband, Dale Geist, never thought they’d leave California. But after the Complex fires of 2017 killed 24 people, ravaged 7,000 structures and crept too close to their house in Sonoma, they talked about it for the first time. Then came the amalgamation of other disasters, signaling to Hinerfeld and Geist that… Keep Reading
