A transformative shift is coming to the Bay Area weather forecast, with a sustained trend of record-breaking heat making way for brief, heavy downpours, chances of thunderstorms and plummeting temperatures.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s kind of an overall pattern change,\u201d Dylan Flynn, a meteorologist for the National Weather Service\u2019s Bay Area office, told SFGATE on Sunday.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The ridge of high pressure that led to weekend highs in the 80s is charting east as a trough of low pressure moves in from the Gulf of Alaska, remaining parked in the region for the whole week, Flynn said. By Wednesday, a cold front is on track to join it, delivering chances of rain for most of the Bay Area on Thursday and Friday.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cRight now, it\u2019s pretty uniformly distributed,\u201d Flynn said. Coastal mountains could get up to an inch of precipitation while the rest of the Bay Area is slated to receive no more than a quarter of an inch. Flynn described the event as \u201cmore beneficial\u201d than anything, leading to a cooldown that\u2019s expected to finally bring temperatures down to seasonal averages.<\/p>\n
One caveat is a 10 to 20% chance of thunderstorms. If the system does make landfall, it could lead to lightning strikes, localized, heavy downpours and some isolated flooding. However, \u201cit\u2019s tricky to pin down this far out,\u201d Flynn said.<\/p>\n
The cooler weather will also be particularly noticeable for people living along the coastline. Temperatures will dip by 10 degrees and into the 70s between Sunday and Monday before dropping into the 60s for the remainder of the week as thick clouds cover the sky.\u00a0<\/p>\n
As far as the rest of April goes, Flynn said meteorologists are tracking \u201can active start to the weather pattern\u201d for the first half of the month, with above-normal chances for precipitation.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt looks like we\u2019re not going to get stuck in another death ridge,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019ll have periodic cooldowns, with chances for rain, as we\u2019re starting to eye the dry season. We\u2019re not expecting to make up the deficit we got in March, but we should move in that direction.\u201d<\/p>\n
That said, if you\u2019re looking to enjoy the lingering sunshine, now is the time to do it.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s going to be a drastic change in the weather tomorrow,\u201d Flynn said.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A transformative shift is coming to the Bay Area weather forecast, with a sustained trend of record-breaking heat…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253276,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105,1692,1691],"class_list":{"0":"post-253275","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco","8":"tag-san-francisco","9":"tag-san-francisco-headlines","10":"tag-san-francisco-news","11":"tag-sf","12":"tag-sf-headlines","13":"tag-sf-news","14":"tag-sfgnews","15":"tag-sfgweather"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}