High winds, high tides and unseasonably high temperatures will continue to impact much of the Bay Area this week, according to the National Weather Service. Winds started picking up on Sunday and are expected to last through most of the day Monday, with sustained winds of 15 mph to 30 mph and gusts reaching up to 50 mph or more at higher elevations. The highest gust recorded so far was 86 mph at a little past midnight on Monday on Mt. Umunhum in the Santa Cruz Mountains, said meteorologist Rachel Kennedy. Coming in second place was Mt. St. Helena in Napa County with a gust of 73 mph at 7:30 a.m. Monday, Kennedy said.
Over the next 24 hours, light offshore winds will replace the dramatic gusts and should persist through Wednesday or Thursday, with high temperatures in the inland areas hovering in the 80s and 90s. The blustery conditions did more than tousle hair, with downed trees and broken branches leading to power outages that, along with PG&E’s planned public safety outages, left than 13,000 customers in the Bay Area in the dark Monday morning.
Garden veggies gonna need extra water.
Crapped up my pool and backyard…. oh well “just smile and wave boys”
I estimate 1000 to 1500 Swallows are nesting under an old pier about one hundred yards downriver from me and they’ve used the seasonal pond in front of my home to gather mud for their nests for years now.
It’s awesome to see so many of them swarm that little pond and scoop up as much mud as they can carry and fly away again.
Unfortunately they tend to crap all over the cars in my driveway which is directly on their flight path to the pond… and I mean they crap all over!
It looks like it snowed out there.
Thank goodness the pond is almost completely dried up now & the birds are all spread out vacuuming bugs out of the sky again (which I approve of) so I can stop hosing off my truck every morning.
seems every year, the wind and temperatures are “unseasonable” It is almost as if these declarations are seasonable.
Now I’ve been able to see what games PG&E plays with our solar systems when wildfire threats are supposedly forecast.