Despite the rainfall expected to hit the Bay Area on Saturday, meteorologists are predicting that temperatures in the coming week are going to spike into the 80s.
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People are already dreading California's fire season this year as rainfall was much lighter than expected according to the National Weather Service.
"Things are starting to dry out already across the region in a lot of spots," said NWS Bay Area meteorologist Roger Gass.
"A lot riding on the Saturday rainfall forecast to at least keep the start of fire season in check," NWS Bay Area wrote in a tweet on Wednesday.
But Saturday's rainfall for the Bay Area and the Central Coast is expected to be relatively light, with most places getting only one-tenth of an inch or one-quarter of an inch, he said, and won’t be enough to offset this year's dry winter.
Next week's spike in temperature will likely not help matters either, said Gass. While things will remain relatively cool this weekend, temperatures will begin to warm up on Monday.
"And it's really Tuesday and Wednesday when we are expecting the peak in the warm-up to occur, where we could see some widespread low 80s and maybe even mid-80s across the interior," he said.
Although temperatures can be a bit sporadic in March, it winter transitions to spring, next week’s is a bit unusual.
"We do get high-pressure building over the region with above average temperatures in the month of March, but this particular high pressure is anticipated to be rather strong," said Gass.
It's likely things will cool down after Wednesday, but temperatures will still be above average.
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