5/6/2023 0 Comments Gulf breeze weather![]() Skies are set to stay mostly cloudy, but patches of clear skies will develop in the afternoon as highs struggle to get to the mid-60s. This pocket of low clouds and a bitter 15-20 mph sea breeze will result in morning temperatures in the low 50s from Bolinas Lagoon to Pacifica. Pacific Coast and Peninsula: Dense fog and mist will make for hazardous driving along Highway 1 Saturday morning. Skies should clear in time for some of the Blue Angels to be visible overhead. The 5-10 mph breeze is set to roll into downtown and will keep afternoon temperatures just under 70 degrees. ![]() Going east of Sutro Tower, some of the west side’s fog will pool into Mount Sutro and Twin Peaks before lifting to partly cloudy skies after 10 a.m. Look for a 10-15 mph breeze off Highway 1 that keeps daytime temperatures in the low 60s all afternoon. The fog will then slowly lift by 10 to 11 a.m., turning to partly cloudy skies just in time for Saturday’s fleet events. This will make for a cool start to the day, with morning temperatures just barely hovering at around 50-53 degrees. A quiet mist is on tap for the west side this Saturday morning as fog seeps into the Sunset and Outer Richmond districts. The good news is that in the battle between the PNA and ENSO, it looks like the wet pattern is taking the lead for next week. This is a complex weather forecast, but the main take-away is that there is still a slight chance for dry Diablo winds around Tuesday and Wednesday. If the low stays closer to land, these winds will trend drier and bring a round of Diablos. This means that a low over Mexico will be able to undercut the high and bring a chance for beneficial rains and snow showers in the Sierra Nevada.Īs for the Bay Area, it’s still looking like it may be a toss up between drizzles on the coast and peninsula and dry, northeast winds filtering into the North Bay mountains, East Bay hills and Santa Cruz Mountains. Gerry Díaz / Weatherbellįor now, the weather models are trending toward the high pressure off the coast centering over the Gulf of Alaska. The European weather model’s outlook for upper-level systems on Tuesday, with the ridge of high pressure (red) centered west of Washington and Oregon while a weak trough of low pressure (blue) sits over Southern California. This wobble is thanks to the competing forces of the Pacific North American (PNA) and La Niña oscillations, and models are still in a huff over what these oscillations will carve out for the Bay Area’s weather pattern next week. It also helps that the large-scale weather pattern has been quiet thanks to the wobbling of the ridge of high pressure to our west. It’s unusual to see this much fog in October, and it’s largely a byproduct of all that humid air left behind by September’s weather pattern evaporating out of the Bay Area’s valleys and passes. That’s from all the fog that’s consistently been rolling into the Bay Area for the past several days. ![]() And for a brief period at the tail-end of the month, it looked like drier air was going to make those moisture levels tank. The first big spike around the middle of September was thanks to all the rains that came through Northern California. Honing in on just the past four weeks, the Santa Cruz Mountains and the Diablo Range have both seen vegetation moisture levels that are near the average for this time of the year - which is welcome news. Gerry Díaz / Northern California Geographic Coordination Center The latest dates are highlighted in yellow. The blue line covers measured levels up to October 6, while the gray line is the average and the red line shows the lowest levels ever measured in the region. The latest moisture levels on large alpine trees in the Santa Cruz Mountains and Diablo Range, up to October 6, 2022. In terms of the Bay Area as a whole, October is a month when Red Flag Warnings tend to spike.īut recent weather events have really watered down the 2022 fire season. Oaklanders can still recall the historic firestorm that decimated neighborhoods in October 1991, which was driven by intense Diablo winds that roared into the Oakland and Berkeley hills.
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