For Bay Area, last of rain arrives but storms have riled up ocean waves

The main front of a storm system that is expected to be the final one for at least a week powered through the Bay Area overnight early Thursday bringing slow steady rain that is expected to give way to scattered showers as the day progresses It s primary impact more so even then the rain might be what it will do to the ocean waves the National Weather Function commented Related Articles Live map Where it s raining in the Bay Area For Bay Area one final rain system expected before a clearing Into the fog Researching the California coastal staple How to beat the winter blues aka Seasonal Affective Disorder Officer suffers injuries after tree crushes CHP automobile traveling Highway during storm In the wake of this system and the one that preceded it earlier this week the waves are really going to build up NWS meteorologist Brayden Murdock reported We re gonna have a good chance to see various -foot breakers and a longer-period chance for sneaker waves The weather arrangement revealed a beach hazards message will go into effect along the Pacific Coast beginning at p m and will continue through p m Monday Majority of waves are expected to break between and feet As for the rain it continued to soak and already saturated region The storm system was the fourth one to pass through the region since the start of November though the weather operation stated it s the least powerful of them Murdock declared the main front hit the North Bay about p m Wednesday and became more widespread through Thursday morning By a m Thursday it was slowly moving east and south putting areas such as Walnut Creek and Hayward in the East Bay and San Jose in the South Bay on target for more rain later Thursday Murdock explained The upper-surface low pressure also continues to influence things he commented and as it moves in that will created the scattered showers It s going to be very scattered he noted The cloud cover will try to lift and you may see it get a big higher but it won t lift entirely Overnight the weather system measured about four-tenths of an inch of rain in downtown Oakland Union City Hayward and Richmond They measured a quarter-inch at both San Jose Mineta International Airport and San Francisco International Airport as well as Ben Lomond in the Santa Cruz Mountains Concord received five-hundredths of an inch It s going to be very spotty by the time we get to Thursday night Murdock stated of the rain By late Thursday it clears up entirely It should stay clear for at least a week according to the weather arrangement High temperatures will remain in the low s and high s in the warmest places