The Bay Area’s sunny spring weather last week seems to have been a tease, with rain dotting the current forecast while meteorologists warn that the first half of the month at least looks dreary. … When the rain returns later in the week, it will be unusually focused on Southern California, dropping just about an inch across Northern California counties that bore the brunt of February’s winter weather. … (T)he Sierra Nevada can expect significant snowfall throughout the week after getting 6 to 12 inches around the mountains this past weekend. … Monitoring the rainfall in the Santa Cruz Mountains over the next few days could be more difficult than usual after the NWS’s radar on Mount Umunhum, just south of San José, went down Saturday. 

Other rain and snow news:

• San Francisco Chronicle: Critical NWS weather radar out of service and impacting forecasts
• The Desert Sun (Palm Springs, Calif.): Atmospheric river flowing into to Southern California will bring rain, snow, high winds
• MyNews LA: Rain, snow heading to Inland Empire
• KOLO (Reno, Nev.): Snow survey shows Tahoe Basin at 84%
• Missoula Current (Mont.): California pins hopes on March to bolster snowpack