This past weekend, the Bay Area got hit with unseasonable rains just a week after record-breaking heat, weather extremes that created all kinds of problems for farmers in the Central Valley.
WINTERS -- On the heels of a record-breaking heatwave, an atmospheric river brought rain to the Bay Area.
KPIX 5 went to Winters to see first hand. The damage visible in the tomato fields was jaw-dropping: much of the fruit was scorched, flattened, squishy, and ruined. Petkov lost two thirds of his crop. Many of his tomatoes are so badly damaged, they're only good for compost. As for the third of the crop that survived the weather whiplash, he sells them to top restaurants around the Bay Area. One of his customers is renown chef Laurence Jossel of NOPA, a very popular restaurant located north of the panhandle in San Francisco. "We're here to celebrate farmers. We're here to show who the heroes are, and it's the farmers. They take such big risks, you know, as is being proven now.
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