Cloudy with periods of rain. High 63F. Winds SSW at 10 to 20 mph. Chance of rain 100%. Rainfall around a quarter of an inch..
Cloudy with periods of rain. Potential for heavy rainfall. Low 54F. Winds S at 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 90%. Rainfall near a half an inch.
Updated: April 20, 2026 @ 2:50 pm
Downtown San Mateo saw strong rain Thursday morning until clouds broke in the late morning to bring out sunny skies.
The storm anticipated to be one of the major weather events of this dry season hit the Bay Area Thursday morning, dumping heavy rains briefly in the morning before passing by early afternoon.
Across San Mateo County, rain totals varied from .75 to 1.25 inches as of 4 p.m. Thursday, with just another quarter to half an inch expected to fall through Saturday, according to the National Weather Service.
The San Francisco International Airport logged .94 inches of rain Thursday, bringing the year’s total to 9.23 inches, which is 58 percent of normal.
The Bay Area’s previous storm on Feb. 26 — the heaviest of that month — dropped only .19 inches of rain. February and March’s storms have paled in comparison to the Jan. 8 downpour, which dumped 3.12 inches of rain at SFO.
Winds hit about 35 mph in San Mateo yesterday, and up to 45 mph in the mountains, prompting a wind advisory there by the National Weather Service. No wind advisory was in place for the city. In Los Gatos, yesterday’s winds clocked in at 61 mph.
According to Pacific Gas and Electric, one outage on the Peninsula left 27 customers without power as of 4:30 p.m. Thursday. Around noon Thursday, 1,630 Bay Area customers lost power.
PG&E spokeswoman Andrea Menniti said one of the county’s most significant storm-related outages occurred near El Camino Real and Willow Avenue in Burlingame around 10:30 a.m. when a tree branch fell on a power line, affecting 129 customers. Power was restored within an hour and a half.
Menniti also said crews restored power to 27 customers in Menlo Park after the storm knocked out their power for more than three hours.
Another relatively small storm is expected to arrive by next Wednesday or Thursday, according to the National Weather Service.
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global warming. yah, sure. they cant even get the weather right a couple days in advance. geeeze
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