Desperately needed rain is coming to Northern California.
The first of a parade of storms in the Bay Area is forecasted to land late Tuesday and the rest will follow over the course of the week.
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Brian Garcia, a warning coordination meteorologist with the National Weather Service Bay Area, said these storms are part of a series of systems impacting all of California.
"We will start seeing some rain Tuesday, and then it will be off and on through the week," he told KCBS Radio's "Bay Current" on Tuesday. "The main event is on the weekend, but the timing on that is still not 100% clear."
He said that the peak rainfall in the region should hit the North Bay late Saturday or Sunday.
"For the front half of the week, we could see upwards of a handful of inches of rain, in Sonoma and Marin County. On Saturday and Sunday, we could get another few inches of rain in a 24-hour period there. All told, by the time we get into Monday of next week, we are talking about anywhere from eight to ten inches of precipitation," he explained.
California has drastically needed rain due to the historic drought conditions across the Golden State. Circumstances are especially pressing in the Bay Area, where in the past year precipitation has skipped the region and headed straight to the Humboldt and Del Norte areas.
Some of the weather models, Garcia noted, predict that this week's showers will hit further towards the South Bay, as well as San Francisco, San Mateo, and Santa Cruz.
This bout of rain will not only help the drought but bring relief to the yearly impact of wildfire season.
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