It could rain for many hours each day in the middle of next week as a storm takes a swing through Southern California, forecasters say.

After a long dry spell accompanied by freezing temperatures in the Bay Area, rain is finally reentering the forecast, with an atmospheric river poised to soak the region in the coming days. The precipitation comes after forecasters initially expected the final weeks of the month to be completely dry,

Following a mostly dry January in the Bay Area, a wet weather pattern returns to the region beginning on the final day of the month.

An approaching atmospheric river looks set to bring potentially significant rainfall to the Bay Area beginning Friday and lasting through the weekend. The National Weather Service expressed increasing confidents of the system’s impact across the North Bay,