Cooler temperatures and rain showers are returning this week across the Bay Area, bringing a burst of traditional fall weather on the heels of an unusually hot and sunny stretch.
Light rain showers are likely in the Bay Area starting Tuesday afternoon or evening, with the potential for brief periods of heavy rain in San Francisco, Oakland and the Peninsula hills, meteorologists said.
The storm system, moving down from Alaska over warm ocean water, may bring the heaviest rain that the region has seen since April…