Visitors wear warm clothing as they take in a view of the San Francisco skyline from the Golden Gate Bridge North Vista Point on July 30, 2025, in Sausalito, Calif.

After weeks of record-breaking heat and dry weather, the Bay Area should finally see a return of precipitation next week thanks to changing weather patterns.

No measurable rain has fallen in the Bay Area since early March due to a ridge of intense high pressure that pushed out any system capable of bringing serious precipitation. As that high pressure moves east, a low-pressure system is on its way to California.

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“We are expecting by early next week a troughing to be approaching the region that’s a lower pressure,”........

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