FILE: Aerial view above Lake Merritt in Oakland, Calif., looking across the lake at downtown Oakland with skyscrapers in the distance.

Parts of the Bay Area could see record-high temperatures for February on Wednesday on what is expected to be the hottest day of the week. 

Scott Rowe, a senior service hydrologist and meteorologist at the National Weather Service, said the reason for the warm weather is a ridge of high pressure that has stubbornly sat above the Bay Area for weeks.

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“Overall, this high-pressure system has deflected any precipitation chances across the area. [It] has also resulted in warm air throughout much of the Bay Area in California,”........

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