![]() ![]() The main storm system, he said, will arrive Wednesday night and into Thursday, bringing with it very heavy rain. On Wednesday, an initial frontal system will bring maybe 1 to 2 inches of rain across the area, with slightly higher amounts in the mountains, Sweet said. In Los Angeles, where heavy rain fell on New Year’s Eve, forecasters expected light rain on Monday afternoon, totaling a quarter to half an inch.īut then “attention really shifts to the Wednesday, Thursday storm, which looks like it’s going to be the strongest of the season,” said David Sweet, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Oxnard. “We’ve got to be in for the long haul here, it does look like we have two or three more storms after this Wednesday, Thursday one.” “The storms really are lined up, so there’s just not going to be much recovery period,” he said. Walbrun warned residents that more strong weather systems are expected this weekend and into next week. The city of Watsonville, in Santa Cruz County, set up sandbag stations, prepared a park to serve as a shelter in case of evacuations and had crews cleaning areas hit by flooding. In Palo Alto, city staff removed mud and debris from streets near a creek affected by flooding. Some cities were already preparing Monday. “I think we can use what we saw on New Year’s Eve as a baseline and expect similar impacts with this Wednesday, Thursday storm.” Sandbagging, preparing for power outages,” he said. “Tuesday, that’s kind of like your last day for basic preparation. With Tuesday expected to be a “break day” for the region, with dry weather, Walbrun urged residents to spend that time preparing for the approaching storm. “We expect this to exacerbate the situation.” “Much of the Bay Area was hit pretty hard New Year’s Eve and is still kind of recovering from that,” Walbrun said. With soil already saturated from the weekend storm, Walbrun said, “it just makes it that much easier for trees to come down.” And with rivers and creeks already running higher, “there’s just less capacity to hold all the new water.” Wind gusts will be in the 50- to 60-mph range. “For most of the area, it’ll be similar rainfall or even slightly stronger than what we saw on New Year’s Eve,” he said.įlood watches and high-wind watches have been issued for much of Wednesday and Thursday for the entire Bay Area, Walbrun said. Starting Wednesday, the Bay Area could see 2 to 4 inches of rain in the lower elevations, with 3 to 6 inches in the coastal hills, said Ryan Walbrun, a weather service meteorologist in Monterey. “This is truly a brutal system that we are looking at and needs to be taken seriously.” “To put it simply, this will likely be one of the most impactful systems on a widespread scale that this meteorologist has seen in a long while,” the statement read. The Bay Area office of the National Weather Service warned of catastrophic impacts across the region, including “widespread flooding, roads washing out, hillsides collapsing, trees down (potentially full groves), widespread power outages, immediate disruption to commerce, and the worst of all, likely loss of human life.” The 101 Freeway in South San Francisco was shut down for flooding just as New Year’s Eve revelers were heading out to celebrate, but it reopened a few hours before midnight.įorecasters are warning that the Bay Area could be hit hard once more this week. ![]() In San Francisco, 5.46 inches of rain fell, making Saturday the city’s second-wettest day in more than 170 years, the National Weather Service reported. The brunt of the New Year’s Eve storm fell on Northern California.
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