Storm That Drenched Bay Area Friday Moves South; More Rain On The Way
A storm front that closed schools and snarled Northern California traffic moved south Friday, drenching the Los Angeles area with brief but fierce downpours.
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A storm front that closed schools and snarled Northern California traffic moved south Friday, drenching the Los Angeles area with brief but fierce downpours.
Heavy rain continued to deluge the Bay Area early Friday, turning creeks into raging torrents of water, triggering school closures in Sonoma County and mudslides that closed Highway 1. Meanwhile, authorities have canceled flood warnings for the Russian and Napa rivers.
The rain expected Thursday and Friday is forecast to flood parts of the unincorporated Sonoma County community of Guerneville Saturday morning.
A series of storm systems are forecast to impact the San Francisco/Monterey Bay Area beginning late this week and persisting into potentially much of next week.
The first of two storms set to soak the San Francisco Bay Area will bring a high tide that could flood some coastal areas and dump snow in the Sierra Nevada.
A Bay Area-wide measure on the June ballot that would impose a parcel tax over the next 20 years to raise funds for shoreline improvement projects is drawing broad support.
The continuing rain through the holiday has some residents in a San Francisco neighborhood that has proven prone to flooding concerned.
As Monday's storm brings more heavy rain showers to Contra Costa County, county leaders are advising residents of locations where sandbags can be filled.
A third winter-like storm in a week brought rain and strong winds to much of Northern California and snow to the Sierra Nevada on Sunday and pouring rain made for treacherous driving.
With El Nino rains expected this winter, San Francisco city officials announced Wednesday their plans to prepare for a major dousing ahead.
The first set of "extreme high tides" is expected to impact the region's coastal areas Tuesday morning, which may cause flooding in Marin County and other areas.
A body and a car buried under feet of mud have been found at the scene of a flash flood that inundated a road northeast of Los Angeles last week.
Most Californians have been more focused on saving water than worrying about floods, prompting thousands of Bay Area homeowners to cancel their flood insurance policies, but FEMA says they might want to reconsider.
Heavy rains caused a caused a 30-foot section of Interstate 10 to collapse, shutting down the main corridor between California and Arizona.
Federal climate experts say there is a greater than 90 percent chance that El Nino will continue through the Northern Hemisphere this winter with a strong chance it will last into early spring.
Every single long-range computer forecast model used by meteorologists predicts a strong, or very strong El Nino for the entire globe this coming winter, the first time that's happened since 1997.
The National Weather Service confirms a strong El Nino is increasingly likely, and some sort of El Nino is nearly guaranteed, while a very strong El Nino historically has clobbered San Francisco with 43 inches of rain.
Now, As he looks to improve his on-field performance in 2015, his Instagram game might also need some improvement, at least, after today where he quickly posted & deleted what many perceived to be a jab at the city of Houston, TX after it was hit by severe flooding overnight.
Years of extreme drought may be coming to an end in Texas and Oklahoma as heavy rains caused deadly flooding, and it's fueling hope that California's drought may soon come to an end as well.
Climate experts say El Nino is growing stronger and could bring drought-busting wet weather to California this year.
The head of a panel overseeing the new $6.4 billion eastern span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge is calling for an investigation of additional problems that have surfaced on the bridge.
A new Bay Area Council report finds a so-called 150-year "superstorm" could cause billions of dollars in damage, arguing the region is unprepared.
A leaking aqueduct made a mess of a Walnut Creek neighborhood this week.
Flooding slowed traffic on southbound U.S. Highway 101 just north of Marsh Road in San Mateo County Sunday afternoon.
The National Weather Service has issued a Wind Advisory for the San Francisco Bay Area in effect from 4 a.m. Friday to 4 a.m. Saturday.
