right now, rainshowers, snowshowers focused out toward our east.moisture you can squeeze out a few light showers or at least spotty drizzle in the short term. wind speeds, a breeze out there, winds 15-25-miles an hour throughout the day, no wind advisories, but breezy out -- sfo checking in eight miles an hour. for tonight, partly cloudy to mostly cloudy skies. another camera to show you, looking ought toward san francisco, getting an idea with the texture on the bay waters, a bit of a breeze as we just showed you. mostly cloudy skies, increasing rain chances throughout the afternoon hours. we are tracking some shower chances in the extended, showing up on long range weather maps. >> i'm watching this, approaching the bay area, for monday, expecting rain. rainfall totals we are thinking most areas a quarter an inch to a half inch. for tuesday, a slight chance of a few showers first thing tuesday morning. wednesday, late wednesday into thursday, our next system, we bring in the chances of rainshowers as early as wednesday afternoon. as the system mo

basically dissipating but some more showers approaching the north coast and still some lingering snowshowers out towards the ser. seeing snowfall totals or storm totals on the order of 6 to 20 inches this week. very productive up in the sierra. we'll take anything we can can get. right now, not a lot to show you, a few spotty showers up in parts of the north bay out towards parts of marin county and sonoma county right around santa rosa, just outside to the north or basically the santa rosa area. a few scattered light showers. and there's the doppler sweep as well, not detecting much in the way of organized rainfall. we'll hold onto the chance for a stray shower thursday afternoon. lowerict asks out towards concord and walnut creek. san jose right now checking in with 60 degrees. as far as the forecast for tonight, we do have at -- the least for today we have some clouds out there. clouds and sun mixed. a chance of a shower and lingering clouds. tomorrow, mostly cloudy skies. north bay showers, there is a chance up in the north bay. the weekend we're tracking saturday rain and sunday clouds.

can see on stormtracker2, the rain showers, the bulk of the activity heading out to the east and snowshowersut to the sierra. we still have activity to report up in parts of the north bay, out to solano county, napa. lingering showers around hayward, livermore, fremont as we come in closer. all of the activity it looks like out towards 238 and 680. the southern portion of the region out towards the region. down to the southern portions towards morgan hill and gilroy, that's where the southern portion is, we have rain showers to talk about. mainly 50s out there for the current levels. santa rosa right now 56. livermore, 54. san jose in the upper 50s. currently checking in, 57 degrees. we're gonna wrap up march with a pretty active weather pattern. the first system moving in today. another one is scheduled for saturday. a third one that can be pushing into the region. the one that interests me is the one on saturday. that could be heavy. we have scattered showers off and on. a lot of breaks out there. some sunshine, breaks in the clouds. here's our south bay camera clouding things up. tomorrow

across the northwest, snowshowers nor the mountains and heavy coastal rain for the pacific northwest in northern california, up to 180 millimeters of rain is likely which is not good news for especially western washington state because the massive landslide occurred on the weekend. so that could hamper the recovery efforts and rescue efforts as well. temperatures are mild across los angeles, 20 degrees and rising to more typical levels across the northeast. 9 degrees in washington, d.c. and rising to the double digits finally on your friday. across europe, quite messy picture for the southern areas, severe weather is likely to happen. that will be affecting the southern parts of the balkan peninsula and turkey on friday. nasty weather for the western areas but quiet in other areas. temperatures are in the mid teens in many places. it will stay almost the same into the weekend. enjoy the warm weather. over asia looking quite settled over most of japan, some drizzle is falling over the tokyo area, but by tomorrow clear skies will come back. clear weather across the korean peninsula and

lingering snowshowers toward the sierra. we'll widen out the view, here is our next storm approaching the coastline. right now, distance tracker on this, 200-miles to our north and west. by this time tomorrow, we are talking about more rain working its way back into the mixture. coming up, the heaviest rain will effect one commute and we are talking about low snow levels. i'll let you know how low they will get coming up at 5:20. >> >> to california's drought, despite the rain heading our way, california is in one of the most drought in history. scientists fear fish and other wildlife won't survive and food prices will rise. reservoirs are much lower than usual in many areas across the state. tonight, one group is helping residents be as drought fend friendly as possible, by showing them how to make their yards less water dependent. kristina is live -- >> reporter: that's exactly right, now we are at orchard nursery in lafayette to show you an example. this is the california lilac. drought resistant and a native to the state

notice some snowshowers popping up over the southern sierra for today but not contributing to much in the way of actual snowfall we're looking at this fair weather pattern over the west coast that's going to keep us sunny for the next couple of days. things changes by tuesday. we have this system. it will approach, bring in clouds and rain for tuesday and wednesday, possibly even into thursday. but it does appear that whatever we do see will be on the light side. in the meantime we're talking about low clouds. here's fog tracker. at midnight, low clouds still gathering at the coast at that point. but they are going to continue to form and then eventually push into the bay for the early morning. by 7:00 a.m., we have clouds into the bay, possibly as far east as the east bay valleys. north bay valleys perhaps into the south bay but we should see a pretty fast burnoff of the clouds. by 9:00, 10:00, already the clouds back to the ocean. i think it will be it gray at the beaches with highs in the upper 50s to around 60. once we get away from the fog. we go into the 60s by the bay. 70s inla

down the cold into parts of southern montana and northern women women where we will see lighter snowshowerss really cold in parts of the northeast. it's good-bye to the fringe-like temperatures we had yesterday. we'll keep an eye out for tuesday into wednesday, how the moisture from the south and the cold from the north combined could turn into a pretty decent >>> we're going from a cloudy start to a sunny finish to the day around the south bay. should see highs in the low 70s around san jose, upper 60s in the peninsula. north bay upper 60s and lower 70s. the warmest temperatures around pleasanton with highs in the mid-70s. so the outlook as we move forward for the south bay, another warm day tomorrow and the temperatures drop off. chances of rain at times tuesday afternoon into early thursday and drying again as woe approach friday and then another storm due in next weekend. >>> today's top spot, we're heading to new orleans, it's the 28th annual tennessee williams literary festival. the big easy plays tribute to the playwright. the four-day event wraps up with readings, a book fare and a