Bay Area’s warm rain, mugginess to be replaced by hot-and-dry conditions

Specific East Coast weather came to the Bay Area this week with certain record-setting rain amounts passing through parts the region while accompanied by particular sticky humidity that would be quite familiar to those miles away But the dry heat is about to make a comeback Related Articles Wildfire threats to California water tools demand attention group warns How much rain did we get Here s where the the greater part fell Chances for Bay Area rain this week as a winter weather pattern arrives early Small earthquake rattles East Bay How to defend a home from wildfire UC Berkeley researchers lessons from infernos By Sunday we re going to see much warmer temperatures than we ve seen this week and Monday it s going to be even hotter National Weather Utility meteorologist Dial Hoang announced Wednesday And the air is going to be quite a bit drier The forecasts early Wednesday morning indicate temperatures in the hottest places Concord Livermore and Morgan Hill will rise into the low to mid- s by Sunday and the low-to-mid s by Monday Those projected figures could go up It will be a considerable uptick following high temperatures of and in those three cities on Wednesday Still it felt hotter than that the humidity ran no lower than throughout the region Wednesday That it came on a day when it rained enough for daily records to be set inches fell in San Jose and inches fell in Half Moon Bay latest marks from and respectively only reinforced just how strange a September storm it s been No question about it Hoang announced The warmer-than-usual storm had a chance to drop a bit more rain Thursday in areas of Marin and Sonoma County but it s not expected to accumulate Hoang stated The East Bay and South Bay were not expected to receive a drop The underlying reason for the humidity according to weather experts and the weather arrangement has been a marine heatwave a key increase in ocean temperature The marine heat wave that the weather system in the present is tracking started in May and covers an area from Southern California up past Canada toward the Alaska Gulf What it means for the longer-term weather this fall and winter remains to be analyzed What it meant over the past three nights has meant a dew point in the s The dew point is the temperature at which water vapor condenses into liquid and generally runs in the low s for the region this time of year according to the weather system Next comes the drier warm-up which is expected to last at least through Wednesday of next week