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This part of the Bay Area set a November temperature record

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November 2023 was warmer and drier than normal across the Bay Area, as the storm track remained over the Pacific Northwest, only occasionally dipping down to Central California.

San Francisco International Airport recorded its warmest November since records began in 1945, with an average temperature of 60.4 degrees, 5 degrees above normal. The downtown San Francisco weather station was only 1.1 degrees above normal, comparatively.

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Cold nights bring a chance of frost to these Bay Area cities

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Cold, dry weather returns to California on Wednesday, and it’s slated to bring a chance of freezing temperatures and frost to parts of the Bay Area.

High pressure will build over Northern California on Wednesday, clearing out the mild and humid air from earlier in the week. Sunny and dry daytime weather will allow temperatures in the afternoon to climb to the mid- and upper 60s across the Bay Area, with a few low 70s possible inland. But temperatures will nosedive after sunset.

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Halloween weather: What to expect in the S.F. Bay Area

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Bone-dry weather is expected across California for the final day of October, with no fog or precipitation in the forecast. Santa Ana winds are expected in Southern California, as elevated fire danger continues. Gusts will slowly relax into Wednesday.

An area of high pressure is preventing storms from approaching California this week, instead directing precipitation toward the Pacific Northwest. Aside from passing high clouds, clear skies are expected across California on Tuesday.

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Chilly nights continue for Bay Area. Here’s when warmth is expected to return

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A cold front Wednesday that brought snow to the Sierra Nevada continues to move south, bringing gusty winds to Southern California and chilly temperatures to Northern California.

Temperatures will start in the upper 30s in parts of the North Bay on Thursday, with patchy areas of frost, the chilliest morning since early April. Highs will struggle to crack 70 across the Bay Area, with lower 60s at the coast and upper 60s inland, about 5 to 7 degrees below normal.

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Bay Area gets last day of warm weather before big shift

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Impacts of Sunday’s rain continue to linger around the Bay Area, as patchy dense fog is possible around the inland valleys Tuesday morning.

Wet ground from the recent rain, combined with long, clear October nights, will lead to areas of morning fog around the Bay Area, particularly in the North Bay. However, dry air is expected to move toward Central California on Tuesday, potentially limiting just how much fog forms away from the wind-sheltered inland valleys.

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This Bay Area city broke a 110-year-old temperature record Thursday

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A strong high-pressure system over California brought hot weather to the Bay Area this week, with Thursday highs as much as 20 degrees above normal.

Wine Country was the Bay Area hot spot Thursday. Napa hit 95 degrees, breaking its previous Oct. 19 high temperature record of 94 degrees set in 1933. Santa Rosa topped out at 92 degrees, shy of its daily record of 95 degrees.

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Bay Area weather: Another big warmup coming to S.F. this week

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A mid-October warmup is coming to the Bay Area this week. After a cloudy Monday, temperatures will slowly climb through Thursday. High temperatures Wednesday and Thursday will be at least 15 degrees above normal, in the 80s in San Francisco and Oakland, and in the 90s in Santa Rosa, Livermore and San Jose.

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Cool temps headed to the North Bay. Here’s how far below normal they’ll be

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On the heels of this past weekend’s heat wave in which the North Bay’s prolonged highs topped out in the 90s, temperatures are now expected to plunge, triggering an early week shower in parts of the region, according to the National Weather Service.

Meteorologists predict a 70% chance Monday of rainfall that will deposit as much as one-tenth of an inch in the valleys, particularly in Santa Rosa and Rohnert Park, according to the area forecast discussion Sunday evening.

Areas such as Healdsburg, Cloverdale and Calistoga could see less than that amount. Bodega Bay, which could have spots of rain through Tuesday night, is expected to get at least ¼ of an inch.

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Heat wave to bring 90s to parts of Sonoma, Napa counties before chance of rain

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Temperatures could reach as high as the upper 90s heading into the weekend across the inland North Bay thanks to a dayslong October heat wave that began building steam Wednesday.

The hottest days are expected to be Thursday and Friday, when the North Bay valleys will see highs in the upper 80s to lower 90s, said Dalton Behringer, a weather service meteorologist with National Weather Service’s Monterey office.

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North Bay to heat up, dry out after weekend clouds, rain

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After a weekend of cloudy morning skies and scattered showers, which dropped up to ½ an inch of rain in localized spots, North Bay residents will experience drier conditions and a bit of a heat-up this week, according to the National Weather Service.

The weekend storms, which were initially expected to hit just east of the region, began overnight Friday and continued through the day on Saturday, said meteorologist Sean Miller, with the agency’s Monterey office.

Most areas got about one-tenth to one-hundredth of an inch of rain, but locally the afternoon storms dropped between one-fifth and ½ an inch, particularly in parts of Cloverdale, Napa and Healdsburg, according to the weather service.

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