More rain is headed to the Bay Area this week before warmer and drier weather sets in by the coming weekend.
The stretch of wet weather continued Sunday and was expected to linger through late Monday, according to the National Weather Service (NWS).
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The most significant impacts were expected to come from rain Sunday night. A flood watch was extended for portions of the North Bay, including in Napa, Sonoma, and Marin counties, where there remained a risk of “nuisance” flooding. Because hillside soils are close to saturated, the NWS said there was a risk of shallow landslides.
A system coming later in the week around Wednesday is not expected to be as powerful. Forecasts as of Sunday predicted less than half an inch of rain in the East Bay and Central Coast, with slightly higher totals in the North Bay and coastal mountain ranges.
“We’re not expecting to see much of an impact from that system,” said Rachel Kennedy, a meteorologist with the NWS.
The storms were also expected to add to the snowpack in the greater Tahoe area. A winter advisory was issued lasting until 1 a.m. on Tuesday, and the NWS was forecasting between 1-2 feet of snowfall above 7,000 feet, with winds gusting as high as 40 miles per hour.
In both Tahoe and the Bay Area, storm systems were expected to have passed by late Thursday into Friday. In parts of the Bay Area, highs in the mid to high 60s were forecasted.
“Once we hit the weekend, we’ll start to dry out,” Kennedy said.
