The wind advisory is in place through at least 10 a.m. Sunday.
Sun was set to dot the Bay Area on Friday, but residents are likely to see an uptick in the breeze when it begins to go down. When darkness settles into the region, the breeze is expected to become steady wind.
The heaviest winds are expected to be in the East Bay Hills, the Eastern Santa Clara Hills, the Santa Cruz Mountains and the North Bay Interior Mountains and expected to gust as high as 50 mph, according to the weather service.The winds come after a couple of days of calm, sunny weather that generated record-setting heat on Thursday. Redwood City broke by one degree and the San Francisco Airport tied 63-year-old heat records with high temperatures of 75 and 71, respectively.
“We call it an ‘inside slider’ when a trough basically drops down across the Great Basin Desert and the Desert Southwest,” he said. “It doesn’t take a direct aim on the coast.”
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