With the holiday season fast approaching, the weather in the Bay Area has stopped being dreadful. According to the National Weather Service, the situation is not about to become dire either.
“We have a little bit of high pressure,” NWS meteorologist Brayden Murdock said Tuesday morning. “That’s going to mean some pretty warm days and some pretty clear days, and it’s going to stay that way for a while.”
The change is quite significant from last month’s weather conditions which marked the start of an atmospheric river storm that brought heavy rain everywhere and torrential downpours to the North Bay.
This trend left the region some time ago, but other weather activity from the Gulf of Alaska continued to spread into the upper Northwest. This system is expected to create some rain up there, but no more than “increased cloud cover” in the Bay Area by the weekend, the weather service said.
“We’re still below a lot of the activity,” Murdock said. “We’re pretty much stuck under everything, and that’s what allows our high pressure to develop.”
Building high pressure will continue throughout the week and is expected to push temperatures into the upper 60s across most of the region. Murdock said it’s possible some of the hottest areas of the interior could crack at 70 degrees when high pressure peaks.
This will also create a calm in the air which could allow pollution to build up. The forecast from the Bay Area Air Quality Management District called for generally moderate air quality, but added that areas along the North Bay and Central Coast could see unhealthy air for people with respiratory or other conditions .
“All I can really say on this issue is that when air quality is partly worse, it’s because we don’t have a lot of wind,” Murdock said. “We’re going to have light winds for a while.”
The sunny and clear forecast is expected to continue at least through Saturday, when Murdock said the area could see significant cloud cover. No rain is forecast during this period, or at any time in the near future.
“We won’t have much variation for a while,” Murdock said. “It’s going to stay like this.”
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