The Bay Area is expected to experience ongoing light rain through Wednesday, with another storm system potentially bringing heavier rainfall on Thursday. This follows the first significant rainfall since January, impacting the region differently across various locations. The heaviest rainfall has been observed in the North Bay, particularly at higher elevations, while the East Bay and South Bay have received less precipitation. The National Weather Service has issued a flood watch for the entire Bay Area, warning of potential flooding due to excessive runoff. The combination of wind and moist ground also increases the risk of tree falls.
More light rain was expected to fall periodically through the Bay Area on Monday, continuing a pattern that began Friday. 'It’s gonna be pretty steady starting again later (Monday) and will stay that way through Tuesday into Wednesday,' National Weather Service meteorologist Joe Merchant said early Monday. 'We’ll get a little break Wednesday, but then a surface low is going to tap into the atmospheric moisture that will be left over, and there will be another push on Thursday.
That one won’t be as impactful.' The impact of the first storm since Jan. 3 to bring measurable rain to parts of the region outside the North Bay has been significant in some areas and considerably less in others, according to the weather service. The heaviest rain in the East Bay came in Oakland. At 6 a.m. Monday, the weather service had measured 2.1 inches of rain since it began falling Friday, Merchant said. Elsewhere, San Francisco received nearly four-tenths of an inch since Friday. San Jose had received .07 inches and Walnut Creek got .7 inches since Friday. As expected, the heaviest rain fell in the upper elevations of the North Bay. The torrential downpours there over the weekend dropped 11½ inches of rain atop Mount Tamalpais, Merchant said. He added that the next wave of the stormy weather again will carry characteristics of an atmospheric river storm and that the rain totals could be heavy. Merchant said the week’s ongoing rain could total 2-3 inches in the East Bay, an inch in the South Bay and 3-5 inches in the upper elevations of the North Bay. 'The upper level trough is driving into our area, and that trough is going to push the moisture south,' Merchant said. The weather service said excessive runoff from the rains could result in flooding and the combination of wind and moist ground could increase the chances trees could fall. They issued a flood watch from Cloverdale down through Monterey and into Big Sur — including all of the Bay Area — that will start at 4 p.m. Monday and stay in place until 4 a.m. Wednesday. In the Sierra Nevada, at least an inch and as many as 3 inches of snow were expected above 8,000 feet and up to 6 inches were anticipated below it. The weather service issued a winter storm warning from 10 p.m. Monday through 10 a.m. Wednesday. Travel conditions were expected to be close to impossible, according to the weather service. The moisture is expected to continue through Thursday, before the weather service said clearing will start to take place on Friday. By Saturday, sunny weather is expected in much of the region, with temperatures peaking in the low 60s
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