Amid a Bay Area sizzle, dry lightning concerns continue to loom

As expected Bay Area temperatures soared again on Tuesday expectedly even more so than in the previous hours and enough to bring a heat advisory Unexpectedly the rain that was supposed to follow the heat s exit was delayed in its arrival so the lightning expectations that are coating part of the Bay Area were pushed back to Wednesday Related Articles Bay Area weather expected to be a carbon copy of previous week Bay Area dodges thunderstorms humid weather on the horizon Threat of Bay Area dry lightning lessens as hot spell begins to fade Bay Area heat to return briefly but dry lightning looms as threat Bay Area s warm rain mugginess to be replaced by hot and dry conditions So were the hopes that any lightning might be surrounded by substantial precipitation The chance for rain continues to decrease as this system moves north National Weather Provision meteorologist Dylan Flynn announced Tuesday So the other thing to watch is that lightning could become more dry in the central part of the Bay Area and the North Bay It s a situation that Flynn revealed the NWS is monitoring For now they expect the earliest the rain will arrive is early Wednesday The moisture is coming from the remnants of a tropical storm off the Mexico coast and is expected to hit the Central Coast likely Monterey County That s where I d put my money Flynn noted before migrating slowly north Flynn announced it s unlikely that Santa Clara or Santa Cruz counties will be affected Lightning is realizable in Alameda and Contra Costa counties he announced As for the heat it is expected to drop - degrees in the hottest places though it may not feel that way The low s and high s that will dot the region s warmest spots will come with humidity that s expected to reach at least The blast Tuesday followed an appetizer on Monday in which the hottest spots got into the mid- s The weather operation issued a heat advisory that started at a m and was set to last until p m The Tuesday temperatures were expected to hit degrees in Antioch and in Concord in Contra Costa County Livermore and Pleasanton also were expected to get to in Alameda County while Oakland was expected to hit Morgan Hill was expected to max at degrees in the South Bay and San Jose was forecast to hit You might see a couple of individual thermometers that crack Flynn mentioned But it s mostly an upper- s thing where it s the hottest The less steamy weather is expected to continue into Thursday after the storm departs Temperatures are expected to spike Friday into the upper s in the hottest places before falling off and becoming more seasonable into and through the weekend