Incoming rain

Tomorrow morning and the wreath will remain in place until after the new year. Need to secure that wreath because yeah, we have some gusty winds in the forecast, winds increasing out of the south in advance of our next system. It will be here first thing tomorrow morning and an active weather pattern over the next several days. We'll be talking about multiple systems out there. Rain here in the Bay Area. This will mean some snow in the Sierra. Here's the forecast model showing you the rain turning over to snow in the Sierra. We do have a winter storm warning in place from 10 a.m. Friday until 10 o'clock Saturday morning. Snowfall projections may be over 12 inches for the higher peaks of the Sierra. Snow levels starting out around 6,500 to 7,000 feet. May be dropping to as low as 5,500 feet, but at least down to 6,000 feet. So a productive system in the mountains setting up for tomorrow. And here's that active weather pattern out here in the Pacific, that jet stream getting its act together. So we have multiple systems within that flow we are watching. The first one's coming on board first thing tomorrow morning. Right now we have mostly cloudy skies over a good portion of the Bay Area. Not a lot of green on the radar to show you, at least immediately overhead. But that will be changing, and just keep that in mind for the Friday morning commute. It will be windy out there. Borderline wind advisory in a few spots, maybe gusting to over 30, approaching 40 miles an hour. Oakland right now winds at about 10 miles an hour. Out toward SFO, winds gusting to 31. And Half Moon Bay, winds gusting to 28. And right on cue, our live camera in Santa Cruz picking up on those windy conditions. So the wind's definitely a factor. Most areas out of the south as the system comes in. We're on the warm part of the weather pattern, so it's warm out there right now. Temperature is mainly in the upper 50s to the 60s. So rain develops tomorrow morning. Temperatures mainly in the 50s. The coolest locations could be possibly in the upper 40s. Here's a forecast model. Look what happens. This is 8 o'clock tomorrow morning. The focus is up in the North Bay and then widespread rainfall. Not out of the question. We could have an isolated thunderstorm with a pattern like this. I would not be surprised to see an urban and small stream flood advisory. So that's a setup tomorrow morning, 10 o'clock. And then this system moves on out during the afternoon hours. We could still have some widely scattered showers throughout the day. And then into your Saturday morning, the chance of a lingering shower, but a chance to get outside most likely as we do head into your Saturday. As I mentioned, it's an active weather pattern. This is Friday morning, the first system coming on board. This is Saturday, the chance of a shower mainly in the morning. Another system comes on board. This is Sunday, especially by mid to late morning into the afternoon hours, maybe a break. There's still a chance of a shower on a Monday and then possibly another system later in the day, Tuesday and into Wednesday. Forecast highs for tomorrow will be cooler than today, much cooler. Upper 50s to the 60s. Get ready for a soggy commute, especially for your Friday morning. A chance of a lingering shower first thing Saturday morning. Rainfall develops again. This is storm number two into your Sunday. There's a chance of a lingering sprinkle or light shower into Monday. And then maybe later in the day, Tuesday, we could be talking about shower chance. So the days of just morning fog, afternoon sunshine, this has quickly changed to a pretty active weather pattern in this five-day forecast. Active five-day indeed. All right, Mark, thank you.