Isolated thunderstorms redeveloping by 9 30 up until the north bay. That could push on down towards the south bay. Before we leave right now we did get new news on el nino. The current rankings have us behind 1997. Well talk more about what this means for our forecast coming up throughout this hour. Okay. You can get up to the minute information about this storm straight to your smartphone. Its usually more accurate that the iphone forecast. Some cities have seen inches of rain today. How is the situation now . Is it starting to clear . You know the showers have been spotty for the most part. Nothing like we saw in the morning but its a little chilly. When it starts raining here, the roads get flooded. The driving 101 south on shoreline highway. Cars drove through flooded areas of the road. The result of this mornings storm blowing through the north bay. The storms knocking down trees off of route 116 leading to a power outage in the area. Another one off of panaramic highway. I work h
Area right now. Hidef doppler lighting up with green and yellow most of the bay area seeing scattered showers. Some parts getting hit with heavy downpours just in the last hour. We have Team Coverage for you. Brian hackney tracking the storm in the weather center. Devin fehely is checking out high surf in pacifica. But we start with kpix 5s jackie ward in mill valley and she has been in our mobile weather. Jackie. Reporter veronica, today was one of those days you just had to go with the flow. One minute people were using their umbrellas, the next they had their sunglasses out in mill valley and earlier, a line of showers did rip through about 3 30 this afternoon. And the people in this area only want more. Slick roads, miles of traffic and Poor Visibility not exactly how commuters want to start their day. This tree fell on a parked car in guerneville as the storm first blew through. The mess closed highway 116 for two hours. Fast forward a few hours later nothing but clear blue skies.
Sluggish on the San Francisco skyway. People are running for cover as storms hit the way area, good evening, im ama daetz. And im dan ashley. It may end up being one of the wettest days of the year. You can see we have areas of rain, heavy in cases, scattered across the bay area, right now, its following a band of showers and down pours sweeping through the south bay, north of morgan hill and into mount hamilton. And some light rain near coito. In the north bay we have a large area of rain pushing to napa counties and into marin counties. So from guerneville south ward we have rain in the area of napa and here is the forecast animation at 7 00 this evening, were going to see bands of showers and thunderstorms sweeping through the bay area during the evening hours, 10 00 looks like its going to be very wet over the pin anyone la with more waves of rain developing up north and sweeping south ward. By 5 00 in the morning we still may have left over showers and thunderstorms. A more comple
Live, from the cbs bay area studios, this is kpix5 news. Breaking news right now. Four people are dead after a helicopter went down in thick fog. Searchers found a debris field two hours ago 25 miles north of bakersfield where the chopper was headed. It was carrying a pilot, a paramedic, a nurse, and a patient when it took off earlier this evening. Air officials lost contact with the crew around 7 00. Conditions in the area were damp and foggy at the time but tonight, it is unclear what brought the chopper down. Got soaked. Got some hail. About time they finally shopped up. Hes right. Thunder, lightning, hail. We have seen it all. Wild weather in hayward a couple of hours ago. That is san ramon 8 00 really coming down there. And take a look at all the hail that came down in san ramon. The woman who took the photo says first, there was super bright lightning. Loud thunder and then this. Julie watt says this is not over yet. Reporter many of you are seeing it right now. We had several im
Decontaminating any of the people inside. A lot of emergency crews. Again, we dont know what the white powdery substance is. They say its too soon to say but theyre not taking any chances. Stay with us for the latest on the story on air and online at nbcbayarea. Com. Also happening right now, a microclimate weather alert. The storm door has been kicked wide open. Our live Doppler Radar really shows you the story. Its right on cue. Just in time for the evening commute. Our live hd camera showing stormy skies and slick roads across the bay area. The day, not only ending with rain, but beginning with it as well. For many of us the morning commute was sluggish. Enough rain to bring down some trees in the north bay. Microclimate weather team is in place. Lets begin, though, with our chief meteorologist jeff ranieri. Two things really. Tonights storm and a new el nino update. Yeah. We are tracking a lot here in the Weather Center this evening and currently its this upper level area of he pre