Back-To-Back Storms To Bring Several Days Of Bay Area Rainfall
Skies have turned gray over the Bay Area, and rainfall was expected for the next few days as a storm system from the Gulf of Alaska passes through the region.
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Skies have turned gray over the Bay Area, and rainfall was expected for the next few days as a storm system from the Gulf of Alaska passes through the region.
June 1st typically has many Bay Area residents headed for the pool, the amusement park or some other outdoor activity where the weather can be enjoyed. Suffice it to say that is not happening this year.
Crews have been working around the clock to replace the ruptured pipe that caused flooding in Capitola Village before more rain falls on Saturday.
Three homes have been red tagged in Mountain View's Sahara Mobile Village, where two weeks of heavy rain sent huge chunks of the hill beneath the community tumbling into bordering Stevens Creek.
Officials in Santa Cruz County are estimating that recent heavy storms caused at least $17 million in damage due to flooding, collapsing roads and rock and mudslides.
Heavy snow and drenching rains have left California reservoirs at high levels. The Sierra Nevada snowpack was 159 percent of normal as of Friday.
Officials in San Pablo have declared a local emergency to help the owners of several homes that are sliding down a storm-soaked hillside.
Power has been restored to Yosemite National Park after a nearly week-long storm-related outage.
The Bay Area was cleaning up Saturday after a new storm dumped more rain on already saturated soil, causing more flooding and landslides.
Crews were working Friday to reopen blocked roadways, restore power to thousands and repair damage from flooding that forced the evacuation of a Capitola mobile home park.
Approximately 160 homes in Alameda County have been affected by a water main break Friday morning near Pleasanton, city of Pleasanton officials said.
Another potent storm dumped heavy snow Thursday night and Friday morning in the Sierra Nevada, closing highways, schools and ski resorts around Lake Tahoe.
Rushing water from Thursday's storm destroyed the home of a family of beavers living in Alhambra Creek in downtown Martinez, but the creatures themselves appear to have survived, the founder of a beaver advocacy group said Friday.
The month's most powerful storm slammed the Bay Area on Thursday, flooding roadways, knocking out power to thousands and triggering evacuations due to an overflowing river.
Homeowners in Lake County are stocking up on sandbags, as officials warn that Clear Lake may flood for the first time in 13 years.
Yosemite National Park is back open with limited services after being closed for three days when a powerful storm left roads blocked and power lines down.
Sheets of rain greeted many Bay Area commuters Wednesday morning, along with high wind advisories on bridges, and even some mudslides in the Santa Cruz Mountains where Caltrans used snow plows to push the mud off of the road.
A dozen boats broke free of their moorings or anchors in Tiburon during this weekend's storm and washed ashore at Strawberry Point on Sunday morning, a U.S. Coast Guard officer said.
All roads into Yosemite National Park have been temporarily closed after a major storm dumped snow, caused mudslides and downed trees and power lines.
More than 5,000 people were without power Monday morning from outages that left as many as 33,000 customers in the Bay Area in the dark this weekend, a utility spokesman said.
Authorities believe a powerful weekend storm led to the death of a Northern California man whose vehicle was crushed by a falling tree in Napa.
A tornado destroyed a wood and corrugated metal shed at a business in Santa Rosa Friday morning, while hail was reported in parts of East Bay Friday night.
Researchers are warning of a "super-storm" hitting California in the next 100-200 years.
Record low temperatures combined with light rain to bring a dusting of snow around the Bay Area Friday night and early Saturday morning, a National Weather Service meteorologist said.
Snow fell on San Francisco's Twin Peaks and Merced Heights neighborhoods early Saturday morning, according to a National Weather Service forecaster.
