Pigeon Point to Point Piedras Blancas between 60 and 150 NM Offshore Forecast
| Tonight...N Winds 10 To 20 Kt. Seas 6 To 9 Ft. |
| Mon...N Winds 10 To 20 Kt. Seas 5 To 7 Ft. |
| Mon Night...N Winds 15 To 25 Kt. Seas 6 To 8 Ft. |
| Tue...N Winds 15 To 25 Kt. Seas 7 To 9 Ft. |
| Tue Night...N Winds 15 To 20 Kt. Seas 7 To 9 Ft. |
| Wed...N Winds 15 To 20 Kt. Seas 8 To 9 Ft. |
| Wed Night...N Winds 15 To 25 Kt. Seas 9 To 10 Ft. |
| Thu...N Winds 10 To 20 Kt. Seas 9 To 10 Ft. |
| Thu Night...N Winds 15 To 20 Kt. Seas 8 To 10 Ft. |
| Fri...N Winds 10 To 15 Kt. Seas 7 To 9 Ft. |
| Fri Night...N Winds 10 To 15 Kt. Seas 6 To 8 Ft. |
| Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service San Francisco CA 418pm PST Sunday Dec 7 2025 .SHORT TERM... Issued at 1218pm PST Sunday Dec 7 2025 (This evening through Monday) Today is looking to be very similar to yesterday, right down to the satellite imagery showing outgrowth from the Tule Fog across the Bay Area, slowly dissipating south of the Golden Gate and west of the Berkeley-San Leandro Hills and the eastern Santa Clara Mountains, and lingering across the North Bay and interior East Bay valleys. Indeed, if you compared the current satellite image and the one from yesterday, you could only them apart by the lack of coastal stratus today. As a point of curiosity, while there are no radiosonde observations over the Central Valley, aircraft soundings from the region suggest that the saturated lower atmosphere -- the "Tule fog" layer, if you will -- extends 1500-2000 feet above the ground. The Central Coast remains mainly clear. The remarkably similar evolution of the stratus from yesterday through today has lowered confidence in the clearing of stratus from the Santa Rosa Plain and the rest of the North Bay valleys. I've tamped down the high temperatures today even further in those regions, into the upper 40s to the lower 50s, and even then the expected highs are still a little warmer than the observed highs yesterday. Across the rest of the region, temperatures range from the middle 50s to lower 60s across the Bayshore, the Bay Area Pacific Coast and the Santa Clara Valley, while the sun-blessed Central Coast sees highs in the lower to middle 60s in the Monterey Bay region and the Hollister area, and the upper 60s to lower 70s inland. Tomorrow, the ridge over the West Coast will strengthen and continue a general warming trend across the region. For the Central Coast, the temperature forecast should be similar to today's. The uncertainty increases across the Bay Area and especially in the North and East Bays, where the impacts of the building ridge on the Tule Fog remain uncertain. In general, a building ridge will tend to compress the inversion layer, and limit the extent that the Tule Fog can extend across the region. (We see this happen during our marine layer season as well, when building ridges compress the marine layer and prevent it from coming inland.) If the inversion layer does compress enough, the Tule Fog could find itself hitting a proverbial wall before it reaches the Bay Area. On the flip side, for those areas still impacted by the Tule Fog, ceilings and visibilities will tend to drop. This makes the temperature forecasts highly uncertain. For now, tamped down the temperatures slightly so that the North and East Bay valleys see highs in the middle 50s to lower 60s, while the rest of the Bay Area valleys see highs in the lower to middle 60s, but this might be quite optimistic indeed. Long Term Issued at 1218pm PST Sunday Dec 7 2025 (Monday night through next Saturday) Ridiculously resilient ridging will dominate the weather pattern through the rest of the week with the ridge crawling through the Western United States, such that over the next 6 days the ridge axis moves from just off the coast of the Pacific Northwest to the Oregon- Idaho border area. Over the Central Coast the impacts are most certain with a gradual warming trend in the forecast. The warmest days are expected Wednesday through Saturday with highs reaching the upper 60s to the middle 70s across the inland valleys. The Bay Area in general and the North and East Bay valleys in particular remain tied to the evolution of the Tule Fog. Impacts are expected to persist into the early part of the work week before diminishing with the continuing ridging across the region. The pattern change for the middle of the month is beginning to come into the very end of the 7 day outlook. The early indications are pointing more towards a zonal flow pattern for the Western United States and any rain storms that develop generally being deflected into the Pacific Northwest. Beyond the 7-day outlook, the ensemble model clusters suggest that a return to a wetter pattern is possible around 9-10 days out, and the CPC's 8-14 day outlook shows a slight lean towards rainfall totals above seasonal averages for the third week of December. I have heard that before this month... Marine (Tonight through next Saturday) Issued at 418pm PST Sunday Dec 7 2025 Moderate to fresh north to northwest winds hold for much of the waters through tonight with strong gusts focused on the southern waters. Moderate seas with wave heigheights 6 to 8 feet across the outer waters will subside to around 4 to 6 feet for Monday. Winds increase on Tuesday, with strong to near gale force gusts possible for much of the waters. A new, long period northwesterly swell is anticipated by Wednesday of next week. NOAA San Francisco Bay Area Office: Watches - Warnings - Advisories CA...None. PZ...Small Craft Advisory from 3pm Monday to 3am PST Tuesday for Pigeon Pt to Pt Pinos 0-10 nm-Pigeon Pt to Pt Pinos 10-60 NM-Pt Arena to Pt Reyes 0-10 nm-Pt Arena to Pt Reyes 10-60 NM. Small Craft Advisory until 9pm PST this evening for Pigeon Pt to Pt Pinos 0-10 nm-Pigeon Pt to Pt Pinos 10-60 NM. Small Craft Advisory until 3am PST Tuesday for Pt Pinos to Pt Piedras Blancas 0-10 nm. x.com/nwsbayarea |
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