{"id":181741,"date":"2026-02-17T18:10:28","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T18:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/181741\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T18:10:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T18:10:28","slug":"lightning-and-heavy-rain-hit-san-francisco-bay-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/181741\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightning and Heavy Rain Hit San Francisco Bay Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NWSBayArea\/status\/2023763764819227035?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Thunderstorms;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Thunderstorms<\/a> passed through California\u2019s Bay Area on Tuesday, February 17, bringing heavy rain, lightning, gusty winds, and small hail to the region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Footage filmed by X user @CZR93 shows lightning and heavy rain striking San Rafael on Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The National Weather Service <a href=\"https:\/\/forecast.weather.gov\/showsigwx.php?warnzone=CAZ506&amp;warncounty=CAC041&amp;firewxzone=CAZ506&amp;local_place1=San%20Rafael%20CA&amp;product1=Flood+Advisory&amp;lat=37.9736&amp;lon=-122.53\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:issued;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">issued<\/a> a flood advisory for the area due to the heavy rain, advising motorists to \u201cturn around\u201d if they come across flooded roads. Credit: @CZR93 via Storyful<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thunderstorms passed through California\u2019s Bay Area on Tuesday, February 17, bringing heavy rain, lightning, gusty winds, and small&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181742,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[1931,1029,101,103,102,32172,104,106,105,31219],"class_list":{"0":"post-181741","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco","8":"tag-gusty-winds","9":"tag-heavy-rain","10":"tag-san-francisco","11":"tag-san-francisco-headlines","12":"tag-san-francisco-news","13":"tag-san-rafael","14":"tag-sf","15":"tag-sf-headlines","16":"tag-sf-news","17":"tag-the-national-weather-service"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181741","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=181741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}