arrived Sunday<\/a> and brought its heaviest rainfall overnight into early Monday morning, dumped the most rain on the North Bay and coastal mountains, with about two to three inches falling in some areas, said National Weather Service meteorologist Matt Mehle. Rain was expected to continue through the day Monday before a second storm arrives Tuesday.<\/p>\n\u201cThe heaviest will be the first part of (Monday), and then we\u2019ll kind of taper off the showers,\u201d Mehle said. \u201cBut we\u2019re not completely done yet. This storm door does remain open, and we\u2019ve got another frontal passage that will bring additional rainfall Tuesday and Wednesday, and then we actually have a third system that\u2019s going to round out the work week, Thursday to Friday with additional rain chances.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s going to be a wet week,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
By Monday morning, San Jose and Oakland had seen about an inch of rainfall, Mehle said. Morgan Hill saw an inch and a quarter, while Concord had an inch and a half. Livermore saw just about 0.6 inches.<\/p>\n
The region was expected to get another one-tenth to one-quarter inch throughout the rest of Monday, he added.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are seeing some variability when it comes to rainfall, but \u2018solid soaking rain\u2019 is a good way to describe it for most of the Bay Area,\u201d Mehle said. \u201cThe radar is still pretty lit up. \u2026 There\u2019s still a decent amount of rainfall moving through and that the heavy stuff that we\u2019re seeing now will continue into the first part of this afternoon, but the second half of the day we\u2019ll see much less rainfall.\u201d<\/p>\n
The storm was paired with cooler temperatures that are expected to cool even further as the week goes on, Mehle added.<\/p>\n
The California Highway Patrol reported some minor roadway flooding in Redwood City that didn\u2019t have much impact, Mehle said. Further flooding was reported in Monterey County. Chances of flooding remain active across the region until around noon.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe creeks and streams are filling out. The culverts are kind of full and running pretty solid,\u201d he said. \u201cThe way to describe this would be more minor or nuisance-style flooding.\u201d<\/p>\n
A coastal flood advisory is in place for the San Francisco Bay through Tuesday due to the potential of up to a foot of high tide flooding in low-lying areas, according to NWS.<\/p>\n
Whether just going out and about or hitting the road for the holiday weekend, drivers should be careful of flooded roads and hydroplaning.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you encounter a flood of roadway, turn around, don\u2019t try to drive through it,\u201d Mehle said. \u201cThe other thing too is, I would be cautious with speed and how fast you\u2019re driving.\u201d<\/p>\n
For the first time this season, Bay Area residents will likely be able to see snow dusting the Diablo and Santa Cruz mountains, Mehle added.<\/p>\n
\u201cPeople might not get it in the valley, but they\u2019ll at least be able to see it off in the distance,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Storms are also bringing snowfall to the Sierra Nevadas, and anyone driving through the mountains for the holiday weekend should be sure to check Caltrans for road conditions, Mehle added.<\/p>\n
Though the storm passing through the region Monday is expected to be the wettest of the three, the second storm will come close to having similar rainfall totals, Mehle said. The third storm is expected to drop the least precipitation on the region. Those storms will also bring colder air that will drop temperatures in some regions, including San Jose, to the high 30s and low 40s, as well as a low chance of thunderstorms across the Bay Area.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe concern there is obviously for people that are unhoused or don\u2019t have adequate shelter,\u201d Mehle said. \u201cDamp conditions from the recent rain, the ongoing rain and cold overnight lows will just make it feel that much worse.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President\u2019s Day was greeted by thick gray clouds and rainfall across the Bay Area Monday as the first…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180459,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[389,184,3928,85637,7,8,18992,390,392,332,393,643,181,23,100,143,145,144,395,396,397,198,200,398,19,399],"class_list":{"0":"post-180458","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-oakland","8":"tag-alameda-county","9":"tag-bay-area","10":"tag-bay-area-weather","11":"tag-bay-area-weather-report","12":"tag-california","13":"tag-california-news","14":"tag-california-weather","15":"tag-central-contra-costa","16":"tag-contra-costa-county","17":"tag-east-bay","18":"tag-east-contra-costa","19":"tag-environment","20":"tag-latest-headlines","21":"tag-local-news","22":"tag-news","23":"tag-oakland","24":"tag-oakland-headlines","25":"tag-oakland-news","26":"tag-peninsula","27":"tag-san-francisco-county","28":"tag-san-mateo-county","29":"tag-santa-clara-county","30":"tag-south-bay","31":"tag-tri-valley","32":"tag-weather","33":"tag-west-contra-costa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}