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For perhaps the final time until Christmas Day, the Bay Area was expected to receive moderate amounts of rainfall on Wednesday as showers move across the region, according to the National Weather Service.
A strong atmospheric river storm system rapidly approached the Bay Area on Thursday morning, sending public agencies into a frenzy of final preparations before a three-day flood watch went into effect at 1 p.m.