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 Day Around the Bay: Gigantic Waves Rollick Bay Area Coast, Get Recorded in Stunning Videos Thursday’s high tidal surges caused evacuations in Marin County, inundated Santa Cruz and Capitola with floods, and nearly cost the life of a daredevil surfer in Pacifica, while eyewitnesses caught much of this on video.
SF News Rain and Floods Snarl Travel In SF and Bay Area, Oakland Zoo Closed for the Day Wednesday’s continued rainstorms caused traffic jams and commute messes across the Bay Area, while the Oakland Zoo closed up shop in heavy rains, and more than 200 flights have been delayed today at SFO.
SF News Potentially Thousands of Lightning Strikes Touch Down Across Central Coast and Bay Area Saturday Up to 6,000 separate lightning strikes were reported across Monterey and San Benito counties, as well as the Santa Cruz mountains and San Jose, between Friday night and Saturday night.
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 Tropical Storm Hilary Makes Landfall in Southern California Sunday, With Heavy Rains, Landslide Risk, and Evacuations Hilary made landfall Sunday morning on the Baja California peninsula and is expected to continue north throughout the day after Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency on Saturday.
SF News Monday's Atmospheric River Will Be a Fast-Moving One But Bring Bursts of High Winds and More Rain The National Weather Service has issued high wind warnings and flood warnings for many parts of the Bay Area, urging residents to have emergency plans in place.
SF News Sierra Snowpack On Pace To Break 40-Year Record, Bay Area Rains Might Last Until April The current gigantic snow dump, combined with January’s storms, could break 40-year-old snowpack records in parts of the state, as the forecast calls for more cold and precipitation through March and possibly into April.
SF News Wind Ripped Metal Panels Off the SFPUC Building Tuesday, Cars Smashed, Plenty of Wind Mayhem Elsewhere Amidst Tuesday afternoon’s wind gusts of nearly 65 miles per hour, two metal panels came flying off the SFPUC building near Civic Center, while downed trees and ripped-off roofs kept public employees busy all day.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Wind Knocks Out More Lines, Now More Than 100,000 Customers Without Power A Richmond District Dungeness crab favorite is moving, the Bay Bridge lanes shut down by a fallen tree in today’s storms are mostly reopen, but the number of Bay Area households without power has grown to more than 100,000.
SF News President Biden To Visit Storm-Battered Santa Cruz and Central Coast on Thursday As more Santa Cruz County roads and highways get pummeled by waves and reduced to rubble, President Biden will make a Thursday visit to the area to meet first responders, and likely announce more federal disaster relief.
SF News Day Around the Bay: California Storms Have Claimed At Least 17 Lives An SF gallery owner is going viral for spraying an unhoused woman with a hose, the Giants are now looking vindicated in the Carlos Correa mess, and the death toll stands at 17 in these two weeks of California storms.
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 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 Tree Comes Crashing Down in Japantown During Early Morning Storms The badly needed rainstorms bring with them falling ficus trees, and this one did some serious damage to the Sutter Street sidewalk early Thursday morning.
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 Photos: Guerneville Under Water Much of the town of Guerneville is submerged today thanks to a rising Russian River, and it's only going to get worse by nighttime.
SF News Windy Storm Topples Big Rig On Bay Bridge, Knocks Out Power For Thousands In East Bay After weeks without one of these, we bring you another round up of storm-aftermath news, after Thursday's weather system brought wind gusts of up to 70 miles per hour in some locations, leading
SF News Three Storms Possibly Hitting The Bay Area Next Week Enjoy the next day or so of warm weather and clear skies, everybody: Starting next week, three separate weather systems are expected to dump rain on the Bay Area, with a severity that's
SF News Weekend Storm Brings Hail And Rainbows To The Bay, Blizzard In Tahoe Beautiful Rainbow #GoldenGateBridge #SanFrancisco this morning - via David Yu pic.twitter.com/xqOQgiWAQV— Charlene ☕ 🇺🇸 (@FreshRoasters) March 5, 2017 A storm Saturday night and into Sunday morning dumped over an inch of rain
SF News Atmospheric River Causes Mudslides And Floods, As 24 Straight Hours Of Rain Predicted 12 AM Update: While somewhat delayed, #AtmosphericRiver has arrived! Widespread rainfall expected through the night. T-Storms also possible. pic.twitter.com/76fxOlEMaU— NWS Bay Area (@NWSBayArea) February 20, 2017 The current wave of
