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Air quality advisory issued through Wednesday for Sonoma County, Bay Area

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The Bay Area Air Quality Management District Tuesday issued an air quality advisory and Sonoma County followed with a health advisory due to smoky air from wildfires burning in Northern California and Oregon.

The air quality advisory is in effect through Wednesday.

Dalton Behringer, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service, said poor air quality will continue the next two days.

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Someone bought 52,000 acres in the Bay Area. No one knows who they are

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One of the biggest mysteries in Solano County may be one step closer to being solved.

Since 2018, a shadowy company called Flannery Associates has been buying up land around Travis Air Force Base — so much land, in fact, that it is now the biggest property owner in the county. Its land now surrounds the military base on three sides, said Congressman John Garamendi, who represents California’s 8th District.

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Officials worry as mystery company buys land encircling Bay Area military base

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Since 2018, one company has been methodically buying up the available land around Travis Air Force Base. The transactions have caught the eye of the U.S. government — but no one can figure out who the mystery buyer actually is.

In early July, the Wall Street Journal reported that Flannery Associates has spent almost $1 billion acquiring land that surrounds the base. Despite being in touching distance to the edge of Fairfield’s urban center, the base itself is still mostly surrounded by agricultural land. Public records show Flannery Associates is now the biggest landowner in Solano County, with 52,000 acres acquired, the Journal reported. Most of the land the company has bought is south of the base, covering swaths of the agricultural and marshy area down to the Sacramento River in Rio Vista.

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A new cold front heads to the Bay Area this week. Here’s how far temperatures will fall

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Following a weekend of morning fog and afternoon sunshine, another cold front will move through the Bay Area on Monday night, bringing cooler temperatures and rain showers with it.

California this week again will be receiving the remnants of storms from the Pacific Northwest as a cold front weakens on approach to the Bay Area, with some chances for light rain.

With the cold front, expect temperatures to cool back into the low to mid-50s for coastal areas and around 60 degrees for inland areas through at least Wednesday. Conditions will begin to warm Thursday before a return to seasonal temperatures, likely by Friday.

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As storm exits Northern California, weather will return to normal — for now

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Residents in the Bay Area and across most of Northern California bore the brunt of yet another storm this week, with impacts ranging from small hail to damaging winds and power outages. This winter-like storm, known as an extratropical cyclone, reeled in some record-tying cold air to San Francisco that made it feel more like mid-January than March. Some of that cold air is still hanging over Northern California, even as the storm fizzles.

That lingering cold air will help raise patches of fog, mist and even isolated showers in remote corners of the Bay Area over the next couple of mornings, but the overall trend is calling for a steady return to warm, dry and sunny conditions by Thursday and Friday afternoons. As is the case with the region’s microclimates, winter’s grip will loosen faster in some areas.

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‘Extratropical cyclone’ is bringing severe weather to parts of California. Here’s what to expect

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Tuesday’s unusual late-season storm is making its rounds across Northern California and will introduce a slew of weather impacts, including strong winds, downpours and thunderstorms, along with the risk of small hail. Most of this severe weather will peak Tuesday morning and steadily drop off by the afternoon across most of the Bay Area, but lingering showers and thunderstorms are forecast to hang around through Wednesday afternoon — well after the worst of the storm has passed.

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More Rain, Powerful Wind Gusts Headed For The Bay Area This Week

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The Bay Area is in for one more day of sunshine before the next bout of blustery and wet weather arrives, which will likely keep things stormy Tuesday through Wednesday.

The National Weather Service said the unseasonably cool air in place over the weekend would stick around through Monday morning, extending a broad frost advisory until 9 a.m. A hard freeze warning will be in place for southeastern Mendocino and northern Lake counties.

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Torrential atmospheric river is headed to the Bay Area. Here’s a timeline of impacts

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The Bay Area, soggy from the weekend rain, will not begin to dry out until the end of the week after two more heavy rain systems, along with damaging wind gusts of up to 70 mph, hit the region on Monday and Tuesday.

First storm: light but windy
A rainy Monday morning – courtesy of an overnight low pressure system from the Gulf of Alaska – is on tap for the Bay Area, Northern California and Pacific Northwest. With the Bay Area at the edge of this cold front, the rain will be light but the day will be blustery as the front moves east.

In the Sierra Nevada, up to 1 foot of snow could pelt the highest peaks along Crystal Range, Donner Summit and Echo Pass. Snow levels will vary from 6,500 to 7,500 feet.

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Bay Area weather will start to feel tropical today as atmospheric river storm looms

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Bay Area residents are in for another round of pop-up thunderstorms and humid air today as the atmosphere continues to moisten. Most of Northern California’s coastline will feel more and more like a tropical environment in the coming days as winds slowly begin to blow from the southwest.

If this sounds familiar to the active weather from early January, it’s because these are the early stages of what will eventually evolve into a Pineapple Express – a huge flow of atmospheric moisture between Hawaii and California. This moisture will then precipitate out as bursts of heavy downpours and snow by this weekend. Until then, its streams will raise isolated thunderstorms every day this week across Northern California.

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Here’s how much rain and snow is heading to Northern California this weekend

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The calendar may have turned a page, but the rain-making systems that impacted California throughout February will stay strong through the first weekend of March, bringing more rain to the Bay Area and heavy snow to the Sierra Nevada.

After the past few days served as a brief respite from a parade of storms, colder temperatures and a chance of precipitation will return by daybreak Saturday and persist through the weekend.

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