SF News Calm Weather Week Will Switch Back to Possibly Intense Storm on Thursday You'll have a few more chances to get outdoors and enjoy some sunshine this week before Second Winter returns with more rain — and some major snow in the Sierra.
SF News Storms Cause Highway 84 in Alameda County to Just Crack Open and Fall Into Creek There’s only one lane open on State Route 84 a.k.a. Niles Canyon Road west of Sunol, because part of the other lane has simply broken off and fallen into Alameda Creek.
SF News Next Storm Moves In Sooner Than Forecast, Heavy Rain to Begin Saturday Afternoon The Bay Area won't get much of a break between atmospheric river storms this week, even though meteorologists had earlier assured us that we'd have a fairly dry weekend until Sunday.
SF News Bay Area Soaked in Rain During Surprise Weekend Storm, Wind Advisory Issued Through Monday Morning Sonoma got nearly 5 inches of rain over the weekend, and downtown SF saw about 1.3 inches. High-elevation areas across the region are still under a high wind advisory until 9 a.m. Monday morning
SF News Wintry Storm Could Make For a Wet APEC Week In SF A cold storm system taking shape this weekend over eastern Russia is likely to impact the entire West Coast of the U.S. by next week, but the full extent of the impacts remains uncertain.
SF News Death at Burning Man Under Investigation As Thousands of Festival Attendees Still Trapped in Muddy Desert Amid the chaos at Burning Man, the Pershing County Sheriff's Office confirmed that a person has died and their family has been notified, but details about the victim and the circumstances haven't been released.
SF News Burning Man Doused by Rare Desert Rains, Turning Festival Into Muddy Nightmare for 70,000+ Festival-Goers Trapped in Playa Organizers shut down the festival's entrance gate and airport on Friday night amid stormy weather, effectively isolating everyone within the playa, who they urged to "shelter in place" and ration resources.
SF News Tropical Storm Hilary Hits Burning Man, Gates Closed Until at Least Noon on Tuesday Don’t bother leaving for Burning Man today if you have an early-arrival pass, because Black Rock City is largely underwater, and the flooding has forced the temporary closure of the event’s front gate until 12 noon Tuesday at the earliest.
SF News Heavy Rains Have NorCal Vineyards Hoping For a Bumper Crop This Year While this year’s epic rainstorms have wiped out crops and damaged property for some farmers, Northern California grape growers are optimistic the wet weather will yield a banner year for them after several years of drought conditions.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Announces Grants Of Up To $5,000 for Storm-Damaged Businesses UC Davis fired the prominent chemistry professor accused of raping a high school student, the wildly popular Dave’s Hot Chicken opens Friday in Oakland, and SF small businesses that suffered storm damage are now eligible for grants of up to $5,000.
SF News Video: President Biden Tours Storm-Ravaged Santa Cruz and Santa Clara Counties, Announces More Relief Funds President Joe Biden touched down in Santa Clara County just before noon, toured the wreckage in Watsonville, Santa Cruz, and Capitola, and announced more relief funds in a speech that’s already posted online.
SF News East Bay Water Utility Warns That High Volume of Sewage Overflowed Amid Recent Rains, Possibly Into Bay A Bay Area environmental group called on the East Bay Municipal Utility District to upgrade its sewage systems after the utility said last week that it had several "sanitary sewer spills."
SF News Another Major Rockslide Closes Highway 1 South of Big Sur For Several Weeks, Maybe Longer You will not be able to drive Highway 1 between Big Sur and San Simeon for quite some time, and with good reason, because this rockslide has rendered that road pretty much unnavigable.
SF News Family of Sonoma County Toddler Killed By Fallen Redwood Tree Speaks Out We now have a statement from the grandmother of two-year-old Aeon Tocchini, who was crushed by a fallen redwood tree in Wednesday’s storms. The family has not only lost a son, but their home is also physically destroyed.
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 Mission District and Bernal Heights Restaurants Gear Up For More Floods, As Another Gigantic Storm Looms Barely 72 hours after being battered by floods, several Bay Area restaurants are gearing up for another “bomb cyclone/atmospheric river,” and many have not even reopened after Saturday’s weather-related mayhem.
SF News SF Still Digging Out From Saturday’s Mudslides, Downed Trees, Floods, and Chaos That New Year’s Eve storm was an all-timer, and its aftermath continues with numerous homes still red-tagged, residents displaced, and businesses dealing with the worst flooding wreckage they’ve ever seen.
SF News Bernal Hill Becomes One Big Mudslide As San Francisco Sees 173-Year-Old Rainfall Record Shattered You can see the rain pouring down outside in a steady, heavy way, and if you were thinking it seemed especially heavy, you would be correct. And if you live in Bernal Heights, the water is flowing pretty much all over.
SF News Storm Dumps Rain, Brings High Winds and Some Hail to Bay Area This atmospheric river is going to continue bringing rain to the greater Bay Area, and snow to the Sierra, for most of Tuesday — and the rainfall totals are already looking impressive.
SF News Rainy Day Will Give Way to Cold and Dry Friday, With Atmospheric River Hitting Saturday A cold front is bringing some moderate rain to San Francisco and all of the Bay Area today, but it will pass, there will be a chilly lull, and then comes the bigger storm.
SF News Bay Area Rainstorm to Give Many Parts 'Double to Quadruple' Their September Rainfall Averages While downtown San Francisco probably won't beat its daily record for rainfall today — 2.01" of rain fell on September 18th in 1959 — many parts of the SF Bay Area will receive precipitation totals that far exceed their historical averages for this month.
SF News Low Temp In San Francisco Could Dip Below 40 Degrees Tuesday For the First Time Since 2017 Some very cold air is descending on the Bay Area this week ahead of another storm system, and all signs point to Tuesday morning likely being the chilliest that San Francisco has seen in four years.
SF News Enjoy This Dry Day — Lots More Rain on Its Way, and Much Snow Up in Tahoe This is the last dry day for the Bay Area for the next week or so, and it is now guaranteed to be a white — maybe even white-out — Christmas up in Tahoe.
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 Monday Morning Headlines: Heaviest Rain Arrives Heavy rain and landslide potential have shut down a 40-mile stretch of Highway 1, today is the deadline for all BART employees to be vaccinated, and the 49ers eked out a messy win.