The Bay Area geared for another day of searing heat on Wednesday, as all the conditions that have contributed to a sizzling start of October remained relatively status quo, according to the National Weather Service.
Yet even more telling than the soaring temperatures that are again set to surpass 100 degrees and break records throughout the region are the figures that popped up in the upper elevations just before the sun began to rise Wednesday morning.
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“What’s really incredible is what’s happening above 1,500 feet,” NWS meteorologist Dylan Flynn said. “Those temperatures all were in the upper 70s and low 80s overnight. So there’s absolutely no relief there.”
The same could apply for the entire Bay Area region on Wednesday. A record-setting Tuesday is likely to pass the torch to another record-setter on Wednesday, and the overnight warmth wasn’t left just to the highest elevations. In just one example, San Francisco — coming off a day that saw the thermometer reach 96 degrees downtown — was 67 degrees at 6 a.m.
As far as high temperature records, more are set to fall, Flynn said. The weather service has forecast highs for Livermore (Alameda County) of 106, Kentfield (Marin County) 104 and San Jose (Santa Clara County) 102, all of which would at least match high marks for the day. The Livermore mark would tie its previous record set in 1980, while the San Jose and Kentfield marks would break marks set in 2012.
Even where records don’t fall, it will be excessively hot, Flynn said. Brentwood is expected to reach 107, Concord 106, Walnut Creek 105, and Lafayette 101 in Contra Costa County. Pleasanton is expected to bake at 105, and Oakland and Berkeley at 92 in Alameda County. Morgan Hill (Santa Clara County) is forecast to peak at 104, while Redwood City (San Mateo County) is supposed to get to 97.
San Francisco is not expected to reach 90 again but will get into the upper 80s, according to the weather service.
As Flynn put it, that will make it a “nearly carbon copy” of Tuesday, when records fell in San Rafael (105, breaking the the mark of 104 set in 1980), Kentfield …read more
Source:: The Mercury News – Entertainment
