SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS RADIO) – The Bay Area is in for a rare weather pattern this week: snow at low level elevation.
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Tuesday, heavy winds hit the region, causing minor damage across the Bay. These winds are forecast to continue Wednesday and will be joined by snowfall Thursday night into Friday morning.
In the North Bay, at least two trees fell on homes Tuesday night and the roof of a carport broke away. "The strongest wind gusts yesterday at Oakland's airport got up to 63 miles per hour, SFO airport got up to 68 miles an hour and San Jose airport got to 61 miles an hour," National Weather Service Meteorologist David King told KCBS Radio. "Currently, they're still gusting at 30 miles an hour and that's going to continue through this morning. It will subside very gradually Wednesday afternoon, but we're going to get this secondary pulse of storm systems Thursday where winds are going to increase yet again."
Thursday and Friday, it is likely that the Bay Area will see snow conditions as low as 1,500 feet, which includes many of the hills in the region. The cold front moving in will bring low lying snow across California from the Oregon border all the way to the Mexican border.
"Just about everybody who is in California will probably be able to see snow at least on the nearby hills and in most cases in the very nearby hills," said UCLA Climate Scientist Daniel Swain.
Four to twelve inches of snow are possible in the Santa Cruz Mountains and Santa Clara County's Mt. Hamilton, and the East Bay Hills and hills of Marin County could see around two inches of snow. Temperatures across the region will stay at daytime highs of 40s and 50s.
In towns like Eureka, Swain said there could even be snow at sea level. "The fact that it might accumulate all the way down to the beaches along the North Coast is unusual and, potentially, if there is an accumulation at Eureka, it would be historic," he explained.
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