Bay Area storm to bring much-needed rain — at least a little

The storm expected to sweep through the Bay Area starting late Wednesday morning will be the first of several throughout California in January that could bring the state close to normal rainfall levels for the new year.

But it won’t be enough to make up for an unusually dry end of the year, forecasters said Monday.

The first storm of 2018 will make landfall in San Francisco by late in the morning before moving through the rest of the Bay Area in the afternoon, said Roger Gass, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service.

“We definitely need some rain, so this will, at least, be a good change from what we’ve been experiencing, that’s for sure,” Gass said.