Beginning Friday night, the Bay Area was expected to experience another round of intense rain along with strong, destructive gusts.
In its daily forecast discussion for the Bay Area, the National Weather Service stated that “impactful” rain would return Friday night into Saturday, raising the possibility of flooding through Sunday.From 2 p.m. on Friday until Sunday afternoon, the North Bay was under a flood watch because of the potential for rivers, creeks, streams, and other low-lying, flood-prone areas to be inundated by excessive rain runoff.
The Weather Service issued a coastal flood advisory for the low-lying areas of the North Bay and the San Francisco Bay shoreline until 1 p.m. Monday, despite the fact that the majority of the flood worries were in the North Bay due to a combination of heavy surf and king tides.
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The Russian River in Hopland in Mendocino County was under a flood warning from late Friday through Sunday morning. Early on Saturday afternoon, the river will climb to 17.2 feet above flood stage, according to the Weather Service. Fifteen feet is the flood stage.
The next storm front will bring with it strong winds from the south starting Friday night and continuing into Saturday, particularly along the coast. According to the Weather Service, the gusts are predicted to topple trees and power lines, causing extensive power outages.
From 10 p.m. Friday to 7 a.m. Saturday, a high wind warning was in effect for the hills in Marin County and western Sonoma County, the North Bay coast, San Francisco, and the Peninsula coast. It was predicted that south winds will reach 25 to 35 mph with gusts as high as 60 mph. A wind advisory in force from 1 to 10 p.m. Friday for winds of 20 to 30 mph with gusts of up to 50 mph preceded the wind warning.
A more extensive band of showers was coming toward the Northern California coast late Friday morning and early afternoon, after relatively low rainfall totals of a few hundredths to a few tenths of an inch early to mid-Friday morning. Beginning in the North Bay, the showers were expected to move throughout the Bay Area in the late afternoon and evening, eventually making their way to the Central Coast on Friday night and Saturday morning.
The largest amounts of rain were predicted to fall in far northern Sonoma County overnight Friday and Saturday, according to the Weather Service. It was predicted that the North Bay would receive 2 to 3 inches of rain on Friday and Saturday, and that the interior mountains and coast would receive 3 to 5 inches.
Rainfall totals for the remainder of the Bay Area will be between 0.5 and 1 inch, with the coastal mountain ranges seeing slightly higher totals.
Although Sunday was predicted to be dryer, Monday was predicted to see more chances for rainfall with comparatively less precipitation than the storm over the weekend.
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