The Bay Area is about to enter a period of minor heat risk after a cold and rainy weekend , but forecasters say the light precipitation hasn’t been enough to pull the region out of an unusually dry April .
Over the last 36 hours, most of the North Bay saw the highest rainfall totals between 0.1 and 0.3 inches, Rachel Kennedy, a meteorologist for the National Weather Service’s Bay Area office, told SFGATE Sunday morning. Parts of San Francisco and the Santa Clara Valley saw just a couple hundredths of an inch of rain, while 0.2 inches were recorded in the East Bay hills and 0.3 inches in the Santa Cruz Mountains.
“It wasn’t enough rain to catch us up,” Kennedy said over the phone, noting most Bay Area sites monitored by the weather service have received between 30 and 50% of typical rainfall totals for the month of April. “But it could help us delay the start of the fire season a little bit, keeping fuels moist a little longer and buying us a little extra time.”…