SF News Here's a Satellite Image of the Storm Currently Battering Northern California The storm bringing with it heavy rain, high winds, and thunderstorm cells can be seen as a distinct cyclone off the coast of Oregon and Northern California — and it's not through with us yet.
SF News Evacuation Warnings Issued For Russian River Valley Ahead of Likely Weekend Flooding The entire Bay Area is once again under a Flood Watch starting on Saturday, as two more storm systems head into the region, and low-lying areas along the Russian River are now under evacuation warnings.
SF News Coastal Piers Getting Destroyed By 35-Foot Waves In Santa Cruz, Capitola The atmospheric river is rough on ocean areas, as the Capitola Wharf has been crashed in half by waves as large as 35 feet as this storm pummels coastal areas of Santa Cruz and San Mateo Counties.
SF News Two Deaths Attributed to Storm Including Sonoma Toddler; 70,000 Still Without Power Wednesday's bomb cyclone turned out to be less impactful in terms of rainfall totals than the one we saw on Saturday, but forecasters were right about the wind-related dangers, and a downed tree has been blamed for at least one death in Sonoma County.
SF News Meteorologists: This Parade of Storms Is Coming From a 'Runaway Pacific Freight Train' and 'Wavy Jet Stream' A "roiling" Pacific Ocean being stirred up by a third-in-a-row La Nina cycle as well as climate change and other factors are making for some unstable and dramatic weather on the West Coast and elsewhere around the globe.
SF News Rainy Humpday Headlines: The Line For Sandbags Has Been Very Long SF's Dept. of Public Works keeps running out of sandbags but people are lined up anyway, school is being canceled for tomorrow in some cities, and a COVID-positive inmate died in custody in Martinez.
SF News Midweek 'Bomb Cyclone' May Break Rain Records Already Broken By Saturday's Storm Meteorologists with the National Weather Service are warning that the coming bomb cyclone looks to be even more brutal, windy, and wet than what we just experienced on Saturday. So, clear those storm drains and brace yourselves.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Bay Area Braces for a Fresh Round of Rain The Bay Area will see the first rainfall from the coming Pineapple Express storm tonight, flood watches have been issued for multiple cities including SF, and flight cancellations continued today at SFO.
SF News San Francisco and Bay Area In For a Lot More 'Bomb Cyclones' This Century, According to New Study It was called the biggest and strongest rainstorm to hit the Bay Area in a quarter century, but last October's "bomb cyclone" event may be just a preview of what climate change will bring to the Bay Area in the coming decades.
SF News Record Rain — But No Significant Flooding — Pummels Bay Area Once More Call it the Pineapple Express or an atmospheric river, but the pre-winter season of 2021 is really coming through so far in terms of some (potentially) drought-ending precipitation.
SF News Flash Flood Watch Issued for Wildfire Burn Scar Areas Around Bay Area A flash flood watch has gone out for Sunday for burn scar areas in the North, South, and East Bay, with heavy rainfall expected and the possibility of mudslides and floods where things burned in 2020.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Prepare for the Season's First Atmospheric River An Oakland man is accused of running over a woman and killing her for vandalizing his car, the Netflix employee walkout is happening, and the season's first atmospheric river is on its way.
SF News Initial Storm Damage Minimal Across Bay Area as More Rains Arrive Tuesday night brought roaring, howling winds and pelting rains to many parts of the Bay Area, but so far the reports of damage and power outages have been minimal.
SF News Atmospheric Rivers, Explained It doesn't seem as though the term "atmospheric river" has been in common use for more than a decade or so by TV weather people. But lately it comes up nearly every winter in California.
SF News Coming Deluge of Rain Prompts Evacuations, Landslide, Flood, and Wind Warnings Around the Bay The next round of rain heading toward the Bay this week will be the heaviest we've seen in a while. And in addition to warnings of high winds coming with the next band of storms, areas that saw significant burning during last year's wildfires are facing the threat of landslides.
SF News New Study Finds Direct Link Between Melting Arctic Ice and Extreme Weather In California For the first time, climate scientists have illustrated a direct cause-and-effect relationship between melting sea ice in the Arctic and the uptick in extreme weather events and "atmospheric rivers" on the Pacific Coast of the U.S.
SF News Governor Calls For Presidential Declaration Of Major Disaster Following CA Winter Storms The State of California is one of emergency, Governor Jerry Brown declared yesterday: To bolster recovery efforts following January and February storms that brought damage in the form of power outages, floods, and
SF News Lane Of Highway 50 In The Sierra Collapses, Second Lane Shows Troubling Crack Highway 50 to #LakeTahoe closed due to road collapse. #CAStorm pic.twitter.com/ZVlXgrJOKy— KenWayne (@KenWayneKTVU) February 21, 2017 As an atmospheric river runs through it, Northern California's roads and highways are struggling
