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
Bay Area residents will have to keep scraping frost off their car windshields — but warmer weather isn’t too far off. Temperatures are expected to rise into the 60s by the weekend. A freeze and frost warning is in effect until Friday morning for the Bay Area and Central Coast, according to the National Weather… Keep Reading
Winter will look a lot like summer up and down California for the rest of the week as a heat wave stoked by bursts of Santa Ana winds builds in the south and unseasonable warmth sets in elsewhere, forecasters said Wednesday. With temperatures predicted to be far above normal in much of Southern California, the… Keep Reading
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — After tying off one of the rainiest periods on record for San Francisco, and a stormy December across most of the region, the Bay Area is getting another dose of light storms over the next several days The rain gets going right away starting with a category Level 1 on the… Keep Reading
Sonoma County saw scattered showers, a bit of freezing rain and a dusting of snow Monday and Tuesday morning as California’s highest mountains were buried by more than 3 feet of new snow, closing highways and stranding holiday travelers. After a weekend of on-and-off rain, meteorologists say North Bay Area residents can expect more showers… Keep Reading
West Sonoma County livestock rancher Joe Pozzi loves the bright green grass sprouting on the 1,200 acres he grazes sheep and cattle in the wake of two unseasonably large storms since the water year began last month. They dropped more water on the region in a span of three weeks than all rainfall recorded at… Keep Reading
