Flood Warning | Northern California Weather Noon

Good afternoon! I'm Aaron Jolly. Welcome to the Northern California Weather Podcast for Tuesday, February 24th. Folks, that drizzle on your windshield right now? Just the warm up act. Rain rolls in across the region starting at 8 AM and doesn't quit until 3 AM tomorrow. Peak soaking hits around 4 PM.. So your evening commute is going to be a wet one. Quick heads up on active alerts. A Flood Warning is in effect for central Mendocino County until 11:30 AM. Small streams near Willits are already over their banks. A Flood Advisory covers northwestern Humboldt County until 10 AM. And up at Tahoe, a Lake Wind Advisory kicks in at 7 PM tonight through 7 PM Wednesday. Gusts to 45 miles an hour. If you're lakeside, tie down anything loose. Over in the Bay Area, you'll hit 64 degrees around 1 PM. Then temperatures slowly slide to 56 degrees by 2 AM. South winds stay gentle, around 7 miles an hour with gusts to 20. Rain tapers before 4 AM. Slide east into the Central Valley and it's warmer. Temperatures climb to 74 degrees by 4 PM. That's February pretending to be April. Winds shift from south to northwest around 10 PM tonight. Lows settle near 56 degrees. Wednesday brings patchy fog between 8 and 10 AM, then cloudy skies with highs in the mid 60s. Nothing dramatic. Now here's the payoff for today's soaking. Thursday through Saturday looks gorgeous. Highs push into the upper 60s to mid 70s under partly sunny skies. A slight chance of rain sneaks back Saturday afternoon, but nothing close to what you're seeing today. One more thing worth celebrating. Sunrise at 6:46 AM, sunset at 5:54 PM. We're gaining over two minutes of daylight every single day now. You can feel it. I'll be tracking those flood warnings tonight. If anything changes, you'll hear it first thing tomorrow. That's your forecast — we'll be back tomorrow. Take care!