Another round of rain is likely to soak the Bay Area on Wednesday, even as thousands of people remain without power from a weekend storm that pummeled Northern California with punishing winds and downpours.
Most urban parts of the Bay Area are forecast to receive about a half-inch of rain Wednesday, while the Santa Cruz Mountains could get up to an inch of precipitation from the storm, according to Dalton Behringer, a National Weather Service meteorologist. Breezy conditions and gusts of 25 to 30 mph are expected to accompany the storm, leaving trees that were waterlogged or weakened from previous storms at risk of falling.
It comes as a trough of low pressure in the upper atmosphere moves into the region from Alaska and the Pacific Northwest — stirring up moisture lingering from Sunday’s storm. Most of the rain should fall Wednesday morning, with showers mostly moving out by the evening.
“Just a quick shot of rain for everyone,” said Behringer, adding that “it’ll be breezy, but not really to the level of Sunday.”
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The latest round of precipitation comes just days after a powerful storm swept into California from the Pacific over the weekend, downing trees across the Bay Area and leaving hundreds of thousands of people without power.
On Wednesday morning, Pacific Gas & Electric’s outage map showed numerous outages across the region, including at least 1,400 without power around Boulder Creek and nearly 900 people in the dark around Daly City. Most of the outages were in the South Bay, Peninsula and North Bay. While some of the outages were reported as being weather-related, the utility provider said on its outage map that many were due to equipment or emergency issues.
A message left by this newspaper with Pacific Gas & Electric was not immediately returned Wednesday morning.
Sunnier skies are forecast to grace the Bay Area after the mid-week bout of rain, Behringer said, with high temperatures expected to linger in the high 50s for San Jose, Oakland and San Francisco on Thursday and Friday, before edging into the low 60s over the weekend.
