A warming trend in the Bay Area coinciding with offshore winds are bringing an elevated fire risk to parts of the Bay Area, forecasters warned.

Warmer temperatures and dry conditions are expected across the San Francisco Bay Area through Friday, raising fire weather concerns in higher elevations, particularly in the North Bay

Another taste of summer weather is about to hit the Bay Area, with temperatures expected to climb as high as the 80s Wednesday and 90s Thursday.

The Bay Area’s back-and-forth pendulum of hotter weather followed by a significant cooldown followed by more heat followed by more cool is about to swing back to the warmer end of the scale. But this heat-up might be more of a relief following the first real chilly spell of the fall,

Drizzle and a possible heat advisory are both in the cards.

Much of the Bay Area is facing hot weather through Thursday, with moderate to major heat risks expected across inland communities.

The promise by the National Weather Service for drier and warmer weather for the Bay Area still persisted Thursday afternoon, but that weather was taking its sweet time getting to the region. On that point, the weather service is hedging its bet as to when ...