Winter Storms Bound For Sierra, Lake Tahoe This Week
The National Weather Service in Reno has issued a series of winter weather advisories up and down the Sierra's eastern front as a series of storms make their way into the region.
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The National Weather Service in Reno has issued a series of winter weather advisories up and down the Sierra's eastern front as a series of storms make their way into the region.
During this weekend's storm, water backed up into West Portal homes, and flooding was more than a foot deep for almost an entire block. Residents say the storm drains were the problem.
A monstrous 75-foot wave was recorded about 20 miles off the coast of Cape Mendocino during Thanksgiving week's 'Bomb Cyclone' storm.
In San Francisco's West Portal neighborhood, torrential rains overwhelmed intersections, and waist-deep floodwaters poured into homes.
A large Monterey pine tree crashed through part of a house Saturday afternoon in the Montclair district.
A low pressure system off the Northern California coast Saturday hurled waves of strong downpours into the Bay Area, triggering a flood warning for San Francisco.
Strong, gusting from this weekend's storm caused scattered power outages in Santa Clara for much of the post-Thanksgiving weekend.
More than 50 million people across the country are expected to travel this wet holiday weekend and, for many, it is a popular weekend for shopping.
A number of airlines were giving out travel waivers ahead of the big winter storm that was expected to hit this weekend as millions of holiday travelers head home.
Forecasters are warning that an atmospheric river flowing into the region this weekend could bring flash flooding and mudslides to the Kincade Fire burn area.
Hundreds of cars remained stranded Wednesday on Interstate 5 headed north from California into Oregon in the aftermath of a major storm that dumped snow and created white-out conditions on both sides of the California-Oregon border.
Parts of El Camino Real were closed due to flooding in both San Mateo and Burlingame in Tuesday night's stormy weather and the CHP issued a traffic alert for Interstate 280 in San Francisco near Ocean Avenue.
Crews are working to restore electricity to over 20,000 PG&E customers Tuesday night in the Bay Area, a PG&E spokesperson said.
Fire crews are welcoming this first rain of the season but for others, this means a mad dash to get work done before the precipitation starts.
The Bay Area's first rainstorm of 2019 is expected to arrive just in time for the Thanksgiving Day holiday travel period and immediately after another dry wind event.
The National Weather Service issued a tornado warning for Davis and Solano County Saturday night as a mass of unstable air roared through the region.
Mother Nature's Spring Surprise blanketed the Sierra with snow Thursday, triggering a winter storm warning and dumping more than a month's worth of rain in some parts of the Bay Area.
May is generally a relatively dry month with the average rain totals ranging from 0.43 of an inch in Livermore to 0.83 of an inch in Santa Rosa. But Mother Nature unleashed a surprise on the region on Wednesday.
Butte County officials attempted to quell fears Wednesday, triggered by social media rumors, that the newly rebuilt Oroville Dam was on the brink of a catastrophic collapse.
A stretch of unseasonable weather is back in the Bay Area through this weekend.
Mother Nature was preparing a spring surprise for the Bay Area Tuesday, a series of winter-like storms that will dump as much as 200 percent of the normal precipitation for May by the time they move on next week.
A winter-like storm front began sliding toward the San Francisco Bay from the Pacific Northwest Monday, threatening to dump as much as an inch of rain by midweek.
A fast-moving spring storm is heading into the Sierra where nearly a foot (30.5 centimeters) of snow could fall in the upper elevations around Lake Tahoe by Tuesday morning.
Rain will return to the Bay Area Thursday and become more widespread Friday, according to the National Weather Service.
The calendar may say April, but it felt more like February outside in the Bay Area on Monday as the latest round of wet weather rolled into the region.
