Thunderstorms expected across San Francisco Bay Area for most of the weekend

By Jose Fabian

The San Francisco Bay Area will be seeing more rain and thunderstorms on Saturday and through part of Sunday, with a chance of isolated weak tornadoes.

According to the National Weather Service, Saturday will have the greatest potential for thunderstorms. Residents can expect “strong and erratic winds, brief heavy rain, small hail, and isolated waterspouts.”

The storm impacts will begin in the afternoon, and it will move from north to south across the Bay Area. There is a risk of up to 50 mph wind gusts and isolated weak tornadoes, the NWS said. The timing of the weather impacts is 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. in the North Bay and 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. for the rest of the Bay Area.

As for temperatures, inland along the bay and coast will be in the low 60s to upper 50s.

So far, over the past 24 to 36 hours, there has been an inch and a half of rain in the highest elevations of the Santa Cruz mountains, nearly an inch in Santa Rosa, just over half an inch in San Francisco and Napa, and slightly less in Concord.