The Bay Area has become a hotspot for flooding and downed trees, with conditions only getting worse with each passing atmospheric river.
While Tuesday’s weather system has unloaded most of its rain, howling winds are wreaking havoc on the Bay Area. That, along with oversaturated soils from previous storms, have made the region especially vulnerable to flooding, downed trees and widespread power outages.Powerful winds are sweeping through the Bay Area, with blasts of up to 80 mph reported at the region’s highest peaks in the North Bay, National Weather Service Meteorologist Eleanor Dhuyvetter told The Examiner.
Dhuyvetter said the winds will slowly diminish in the early afternoon before calming down “later tonight.”Nearly 12 storm systems in January and February filled up soils to the point where they can’t accept any more water, according to Dhuyvetter. “Think of the ground like a sponge and the soils being the fabric of the sponge,” Dhuyvetter explained. “The pores in the sponge still do exist in the soil. Usually there’s pores of air and other things and those pores will fill up with water when it rains. And we’ve just had so much rain so frequently that it hasn’t been able to dry out. We haven’t been able to get some air back in those pores and in the soil.
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