The rain continues, in case you hadn't opened your blinds or left the house in a few days, but luckily the storm system arriving Tuesday will not pack the same punch, rainfall-wise, as the one over the weekend. Still all that saturated ground has led to landslides, rockslides, and toppled trees all over the Bay Area, including a significant landslide that closed down lanes on Highway 17 between San Jose and Santa Cruz, and totaled an ABC 7 news van. And high winds are expected to arrive Tuesday afternoon.

And despite this being somewhat seasonally typical rain, it is more rain than many parts of the Bay Area have gotten in January in many years. A few one-day records were broken on Sunday in Santa Rosa and Livermore, parts of Napa and Guerneville remain under some water and remain at risk of further flooding, as KRON 4 reports, and low-lying parts of Marin County nearest the Bay were dealing with floods on top of King Tides this morning, which typically flood areas around the 101 freeway interchange in Sausalito and the Manzanita Park & Ride in Mill Valley.

Also, part of Napa's Silverado Trail was blocked by a landslide on Monday.

Steve Anderson, a National Weather Service forecaster in Monterey, California tells KRON 4, "It’s been about 10 years since we’ve experienced this kind of rainfall. The big concern [with Tuesday's storm] is flash flooding, rapid rises on creeks and the Russian River coming out of its banks again."

Mud and landslides are also a big concern in Big Sur where so much of the land was scorched in the Soberanes Fire last year. As the Chronicle reports, "A mudslide slammed into a car and scattered coastal redwood trees and debris across Highway 1 just south of the Fernwood Resort on Monday morning. No one was injured, but the slide blocked the road for hours."

High winds are also predicted Tuesday, particularly at higher elevations, and there are blizzard conditions currently in the Sierra Nevada, with several Tahoe ski resorts closed today. In San Francisco we can expect 25- to 35-mph winds today, with gusts up to 45 mph, and higher elevations could see gusts up to 65 mph.

Tahoe has seen two to three feet of new snow in the last 24 hours, with Squaw/Alpine reporting 27 inches, and three to seven feet are expected to fall at lake level through Thursday with five to 10 feet falling at higher elevations.

Also: 150 mile-per-hour winds (!) are expected at ridgetops, which means no one should be up there.


Previously: Pictures And Video From A Flooded Guerneville