Rain and wind heading this way

Another glorious day here in the Bay Area, but for your Thursday, we will pan out to be anywhere from 3 to 8 degrees. Cooler. Check out the nice, mild to warm temperatures across the Bay Area today. Unseasonably warm in Gilroy and in Morgan Hill in the 80s there. How about Watsonville? Checking in right around 79 degrees. In the city, it was glorious. 70 degrees. How about 78 degrees in Santa Rosa? Mid-70s Antioch, Livermore, Pleasanton and Dublin. It was 70 degrees in Mountain View and a little bit more mild than that in Redwood City and in Redwood Shores. Now, sunset tonight, 5.01. You can see. The span of the Golden Gate Bridge, that's a good thing because we will see areas of dense fog developing before sun up tomorrow morning, right around 646, and these are the temperatures that will greet you from the 40s to nearly 60 in Fairfield. Now, this is the big story because it's going to be rainy and it will be windy on your Friday. I'm talking gusty winds as well, but the ocean, we have to be mighty concerned with that. Beach Hazard Statement is in effect right now. It was issued by the National Weather Service after 10 o'clock this morning, and it goes until Friday because we are going to see, by Friday, waves 15 to 20 feet, okay? That's pretty much for Thursday and Friday. Right now, we do have some waves up to 9 feet in the outer waters, but we have this strong west-northwest surge. It's a swell every 18 seconds, so by Saturday, we're going to have the biggest waves, 20 to 30 feet, potentially up to 35. I believe Mavericks will see the biggest at Pillar Point. And then the surf drops dramatically on Sunday, but that's still very high. And a high surf warning is in effect. Meanwhile, that coastal flood advisory is still in effect as well. Tomorrow, just after high noon, we will see a high tide at 7.1 feet. Again, that coastal flood advisory with... Just about a foot and a half of inundation. Let's get down to business here. We have an area of low pressure. It's just to the north of us in the Pacific Northwest. No measurable precipitation in Seattle today, but wait, it will happen. Here we go. I'm starting with Thursday at 5 o'clock. The rain is inching closer to the Bay Area. It will be raining before the night ends on Thursday. Then this mighty system here comes in for your Friday, tapers off Saturday morning. We see the snow on the fly in the Greater Lake Tahoe area. Here's another system that. It comes in on Sunday night through Monday with an occasional shower here and there. So what are we talking about? I'm saying anywhere from about a half an inch of rain in our East Bay inland areas to about two and a quarter in the North Bay. But again, the windiest day will be on Friday when this first system moves in. Now, let's talk about the snow. We do have snow levels down to 6,000 feet where we will see at least a half a foot of snow there and nearly two feet above 7,000 feet in elevation. Very windy conditions to 60s to the mid 70s. Tomorrow, a good eight degrees cooler in some neighborhoods, in and out of the rain each day through Monday. We will be right back after this.