Now its our buddy, its our pal, its our friend. It is steering every storm toward us, not only the one moving through right now, but the one that will give us a bigger drenching coming up over the weekend. The first storm, the latest computer model information says we will get more rain. Some may get an inch or more of rain fall from this and this is the smaller of the two storms. So wait until you see how much rain we have in the forecast and how much of a dent this will put in our drought. Thats coming up in a few minutes. Looks good, paul. Now to andrea, she is live in pleasantton with the latest. Andrea. Reporter ken, can you see . There is rain falling right now. Good news for this town because it is under an extreme drought right now. So much so in fact that the pleasantton city Council Voted to institute a call to ask its residents for a 20 cut in their water usage. Now, as you look at video of downtown pleasantton, you can see theres a sheen of water on the roads. There is wate
Lets talk about round number one. Latest computer model thinking is we may see an inch or more of rainfall over the next 24 hours. This is just the beginning. The weather storm is whats coming up later this week and into the weekend. Deep tails coming details coming up. Back to you. Thank you. Lets go out 0 pleasanton. Reporter take a look. Theres rain falling in pleasanton. Thats good news. Pleasanton is in what were calling an extreme drought. The Pleasanton City Council this week issued a statement to its residents asking for a 20 water reduction. This rain storm coming in over the next 24 hours will bring in as much rain as pleasanton has seen in the past seven months. We need rain. Farmers need rain. Ranchers need rain. The reservoir, Everybody Needs rain. Were absolutely thrilled with the rain. We need it. Reporter now, its possible that the storms over the next several days could bring in as much as 20 of the rains that pleasanton needs for the year. Time will tell. Back to you.
Punch. That paul says will a big dent in our drought. . Paul weather paul weather lets go outside to andria borba. Shes in pleasanton. Andria. Mill valley. I will zoom out and show you the rain thats yet to come. Everything has to work through the bay area before we wrap it up. Remember that ridge . The thing blocking all of the rain sending it up to alaska. Now its our buddy and friend. Now that its in a different position, its carrying the storms into the bay area. Lets talk about round number one. Latest computer model thinking is we may see an inch or more of rainfall over the next 24 hours. This is just the beginning. The weather storm is whats coming up later this week and into the weekend. Deep tails coming details coming up. Back to you. Thank you. Lets go out 0 pleasanton. Reporter take a look. Theres rain falling in pleasanton. Thats good news. Pleasanton is in what were calling an extreme drought. The Pleasanton City Council this week issued a statement to its residents aski
Expecting to see heavy rainfall in through parts of pacifica and half moon bay, el granada, some of that heavier rainfall in parts of the south bay. A Little Pocket of clearing towards san jose but that will soon change and right now heavy rain through fremont and petaluma. Its a stormy start to the day. By the afternoon things settle down. Temperatures out the door we go, mainly in the 40s outside. I think as we look toward the afternoon, rain ends by the latter part of the day, cool in the 50s. But we have a bigger storm on the horizon. Well talk about that coming up. Lets check your kcbs traffic with elizabeth. And as you said, it is a wet one outside right now. Heres a live look at the bay bridge toll plaza. Michelle noticed all those raindrops on the lens. Traffic is moving okay right now approaching the bay bridge toll plaza. But it is wet all across the span oakland into San Francisco. We have also had numerous spinouts. A Traffic Alert was canceled. All lanes open through the l