Unless you’re an actual rain gauge, you’ve probably had it up to here with wet weather. Just know the San Francisco Bay Area’s due for a soggy Tuesday before a cooler, partly cloudy stretch ahead, the National Weather Service said Sunday.
In some ways, Bay Area residents were spared the worst of the systems.
“We got a pretty good front through Saturday, with about a half-inch or more, and a lot of scattered showers Saturday evening,” National Weather Service meteorologist Will Pi said.
“Then we saw heavy showers Sunday morning, mostly rain with some small hail and lightning, and some thunderstorms more toward Monterey and the Central Valley. Conditions were definitely unstable, but it threw us a curve and just missed the area.”
Pi also noted some reports of funnel clouds east of Alameda County near Tracy, but there were no reports of any touchdowns or property damage.
Storm systems from late last week and over the weekend tapped into subtropic “pineapple express” moisture and tipped many regional sites over the seasonal average for rain.
As of 4 p.m. Sunday, San Jose International Airport and Moffett Field had logged a respective .38 and .45 inches, bringing them to 111 and 101 percent of normal for the year, according to preliminary data.
Nearby, Oakland International Airport’s .24 inch brought it to 102 percent of normal, while San Francisco International Airport and downtown San Francisco measured .27 and .12 inches, bringing them to 115 and 111 percent of normal.
As forecasters noted last week, San Francisco usually sees .70 inches of rain in the month of May, while Oakland gets .77 inches and San Jose .51 inches. The last time San Francisco, San Jose or Oakland recorded more than one-quarter of an inch of rain in May was 2011.
Another system due late Monday through Tuesday should be much drier, forming inland and dropping south without around a quarter-inch of rain for Bay Area residents.
After that, expect partly cloudy to sunny skies with below-normal temperatures as things warm up gradually throughout the week.
Contact George Kelly at 408-859-5180.
