East Bay hills

After widespread rain soaked the Bay Area Tuesday, more wet weather is in store Wednesday — this time in the form of scattered showers.

The first significant storm system of the season made its way across the Bay Area Tuesday, soaking the region with much-needed rain but also triggering a host of hazards, ranging from high winds to powerful waves.

Pacific Gas & Electric began restoring power Thursday to some of the 120,000 people it intentionally blacked out to ease the risk of catastrophic wildfires.

PG&E continues to downsize the scope of its latest round of proactive power shutoffs as weather conditions improved Wednesday.

PG&E has downsized its power shutoff plan that was set to impact more than 300,000 customers across 25 counties in Northern California.

PG&E is monitoring a potentially strong wind event in the forecast for Wednesday that could prompt another Public Safety Power Shutoff in parts of the Bay Area and other regions of Northern California.

Last week, Berkeley’s City Council passed a resolution to make fire safety a top priority. Although Alameda County is not part of the PG&E public safety shutoff area that will potentially be affected this week, it’s still issuing a red flag warning beginning Wednesday at noon. The warning for the East Bay hills will stay in effect until Thursday at...

High winds and dry conditions have weather officials warning of a possible increased risk of wildfires in the Bay Area this week, and those very conditions have PG&E monitoring the potential for more power shutoffs later in the week.

PG&E late Friday was nearing completion of restoring electricity to hundreds of thousands of Northern and Central California customers who have been in the dark since earlier this week when the utility deliberately cut power in some areas because of high fire danger.

The second round of PG&E’s planned power shutoffs have begun in the East Bay, South Bay and Santa Cruz and the process will continue through midnight, the utility confirmed.

PG&E has started to proactively turn off power to roughly 800,000 customers in parts of several Bay Area counties and across much of Northern and Central California due to heightened fire danger.

PG&E could turn off power in parts of several Bay Area counties and across much of Northern, Central and coastal California Wednesday due to elevated fire danger, the utility announced Monday.

Scorching temperatures, gusty winds and dry conditions have forced Bay Area weather officials to issue a red flag warning and heat advisory through the middle of the week. Jeff Ranieri and Ali Wolf report.

Scorching temperatures, gusty winds and dry conditions have forced Bay Area weather officials to issue a red flag warning and heat advisory through the middle of the week.

High temperatures, low humidity and offshore winds have prompted a red flag fire danger warning for the North and East Bay hills and the Diablo Range from Monday night through early Wednesday, the National Weather Service said Sunday afternoon.

High temperatures, low humidity and offshore winds have prompted a red flag fire danger warning for the North and East Bay hills and the Diablo Range from Monday night through early Wednesday, the National Weather Service said Sunday afternoon. Jeff Ranieri and Jean Elle report.

Warmer temperatures in the forecast have prompted the National Weather Service to issue a fire weather watch starting Monday night for the North and East Bay hills and higher elevations in the Diablo Range.

After making a spectacular return to the Bay Area on Monday, snow continued to fall on peaks across the region during the early hours of Tuesday, leaving the terrain coated in a blanket of shimmering white.

Snow made it to the Bay Area on Monday. The National Weather Service was predicting snow in some of the region’s higher elevations such as Mount Hamilton, Mount Diablo and Mount Tamalpais.