A Flood Watch has been issued for the region Friday and Saturday; experts don’t expect a major flooding event, but say conditions will be hazardous.
The Bay Area should brace for another soaking Friday and Saturday with a major storm system settling that is raising flooding and landslide concerns given that the region’s soil alreadyBoth the National Weather Service and U.S. Geological Survey have found that soil saturation is expected to set off a domino effect that leads to an elevated risk of shallow landslides, particularly on Saturday.
The region got an early glimpse of the coming rains Thursday when residents woke up to wet and rainy conditions following aStill, even after a morning of gray skies and scattered showers, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s rainfall survey showed much of the Bay Area got no more than a third of an inch of rain Thursday.
The stormy conditions are all but certain to carry into the start of 2023, with the weather service’s seven-day forecast showing rain in most of the area’s major population centers.was set to take effect Friday evening and extend through Saturday for the entire Bay Area. The intensity of the storm coming into the region, forecasters say, is fueled by a sub-tropical patch of moisture and warm air coming from Hawaii combined with cold air from the Pacific Northwest.
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