Another warm-up in the Bay Area managed to take off on Friday, and the National Weather Service said that after a weekend break, it will be a mostly steady climb through the middle of next week.
“We have high pressure expanding westward from the desert southwest,” NWS meteorologist Roger Gass said. “We still have low pressure several hundred miles off the coast, but high pressure is starting to gain more influence.”
That influence will result in temperatures on Friday climbing into the mid to high 90s again in the hottest places inland, while temperatures along the Bay coast will climb higher than the normal average, he said.
After that lift, the weather is expected to “level off” Saturday and Sunday, Gass said.
“Then we will resume a warming trend,” he said.
Such warm-ups have not been unusual this year. The Bay Area endured for a long time heat wave around the Labor Day holidayand endured one sizzling July.
A two-day window that will see temperatures drop by 7-10 degrees from Friday is expected on Saturday and Sunday, before temperatures begin to climb again on Monday during a three-day upward march.
“By Tuesday of next week and probably into Wednesday, we’re probably going to see 100 degrees in some places and high 90s in a lot of them,” Gass said.
On Friday, the appetizer was cancelled.
In Alameda County, Livermore was expected to reach a high of 96 degrees, and Pleasanton is expected to reach 95. In Contra Costa County, Concord is one of several cities expected to reach 96, and Walnut Creek’s high is expected to be 95. Morgan Hill also is likely to reach 95, and San Jose is expected to reach 92.
Along the coast and near the bay the numbers were equally telling. San Mateo was expected to reach 84, Oakland 83 and Berkeley 82. San Francisco was expected to come in at 78.
“I think we used the term roller coaster earlier this week, and that’s certainly what we’re seeing,” Gass said. “Again, we’re going to expect some ups and downs. There’s no sea breezes that seem to be developing, at least right now. When we get them, that’s when it could get really warm for a really long time. We don’t see that.”
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