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The last in a series of January storms that boosted rainfall totals across Northern California cleared out of the Bay Area on Monday morning, paving the way for a stretch of dry, warmer weather.
Temperatures across the Bay Area are expected to gradually climb from the low 50s on Monday to the high 60s this weekend as a ridge of high pressure settles over the West Coast, according to the National Weather Service. Temperatures on Friday and Saturday could reach 70 degrees in the South Bay and along the Monterey Bay coast, according to Anna Schneider, a meteorologist with the weather service.
“After these showers pass, it should be dry through the rest of the week,” Schneider said.
The storm that moved across the Bay Area on Sunday delivered about one-quarter of an inch of rain to most cities and as much as 1.5 inches in higher elevations, according to the weather service.
In the Sierra Nevada, 8 to 20 inches of new snow fell during a 24-hour span ending Monday at 9 a.m., according to the weather service.
Here is a look at the 24 hour snow reports in the Sierra. #cawx pic.twitter.com/hdGoSDGfsm
— NWS Sacramento (@NWSSacramento) January 21, 2019
At 8:15 a.m. Monday, there were still reports of scattered showers across the Bay Area.
The storms that soaked Northern California during the first three weeks of 2019 boosted rainfall totals statewide and added several feet of new snow in the Sierra Nevada.
By Friday, the statewide Sierra Nevada snow pack level — a key source of California’s summer water supply — increased to 111 percent of its historical average, up from just 69 percent on New Year’s Day.
January rainfall totals in the Bay Area include San Francisco 4.54 inches (156 percent of average), Oakland 3.42 inches (109 percent of average) and San Jose 2.63 inches (132 percent of normal).
Across Northern California, rainfall totals for the water year which began Oct. 1 are running near or above average for this time of year, including Redding at 19 inches (113 percent of normal), Santa Rosa at 17.51 inches (93 percent), San Francisco 10.41 inches (89 percent), Oakland 8.43 inches (81 percent) and San Jose 5.99 inches (85 percent).
The storms have also soaked Southern California, where rainfall totals in many cities are running above their averages for this time of year.
