{"id":180587,"date":"2026-02-16T21:18:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T21:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/180587\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T21:18:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T21:18:07","slug":"bay-area-rain-brings-spinouts-traffic-slowdowns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/180587\/","title":{"rendered":"Bay Area rain brings spinouts, traffic slowdowns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the Sierra was set to get hammered by snow &#8211; plenty of rain was seen in the Bay Area Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">As the Sierra was set to get hammered by snow &#8211; plenty of rain was seen in the Bay Area Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">It led to plenty of spinouts and congestion could be seen dark and early in the morning making for challenging driving conditions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Something the CHP warned drivers about all weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;It&#8217;s always important to reduce your speed, increase following distance, it takes a longer distance to stop vehicle in the wet roadway conditions,&#8221; said Officer Arthur Tellez with the California Highway Patrol.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The road challenges are also expected for those going to and leaving the Lake Tahoe area. The road challenges aside though, the snow is a welcome site for local ski resorts that have seen a bit of a dry spell.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">&#8220;It&#8217;s going to bring up the snow pack, for the ski resorts, it&#8217;s really going to allow them to press forward into the spring season,&#8221; said Kevin &#8220;Coop&#8221; Cooper, CEO of the Kirkwood Ski Education Foundation, &#8220;So for skiers and riders, for outdoor enthusiasts, snowmobiles, cross country skiers, anybody who loves snow, the Sierra is going to be set, especially after Thursday.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the Sierra was set to get hammered by snow &#8211; plenty of rain was seen in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180588,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[85570,101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-180587","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco","8":"tag-85570","9":"tag-san-francisco","10":"tag-san-francisco-headlines","11":"tag-san-francisco-news","12":"tag-sf","13":"tag-sf-headlines","14":"tag-sf-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180587","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=180587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}