Flood advisories. And the other thing sov wind advisory out there. So a fullfledged winter storm tomorrow night. Ill sigh back here with the timing. Thank you very much bill. Todays rain is making for slick conditions on bay area roadways. This is what the drive across the Golden Gate Bridge looked like this afternoon. As you can see the windshield wipers were working hard today. The wet weather also means a slower commute, sadly to say. Take a look at our live traffic map. You see all that red there. Thats not good. Thats areas where its backed up. The square icons, you see at least five, six of them. That shows where accidents have been reported. Lets take a live look at interstate 80 in berkeley. Its pretty much a parking lot. This is near the University Avenue exit. People in both directions stuck as the rain kind of comes down in that area. Take a look now at interstate 680 at the sun sunol grade. Pg e says its meteorologists will be tracking where the biggest impact from the stor
And live doppler 7hd. This is a potent storm that will come in tomorrow. Let me show you where the showers are right now ahead the storm. They are light to moderate in intensity as we take you closer to level radar. 680 san. We are also seeing lighter showers around thnta cruz mountains and pushing to watsonville. As we put the radar into the north bay you will notice riaround san rafael and lucas valley and wood acre we are tracking pockets of moderate rain and when you lo here, we have been watching lightning develop off coastline here. Obviously it didnt reach the coastline. It is not out of the question to see more lightning activity over the next couple days. We have been rating them. Tomorrow is a 3. One to two inches of rain for the lower elevations and gusts over 50 miles an hour possible. With the heavy rains flash flooding is possible along with debris flows in lake county. Saturday at 4 00 p. M. Until sunday morning. Wind advisory for the entire bay area saturday noon until
This morning. Thats not gonna change. So to sum it up. Well see a blustery day today. We will have a few showers, some peeks of sun. By Christmas Eve, the snow level will be down to 3,000 feet. We may have something of a White Christmas in the prayer. Well discuss that in the forecast. But first a lot going on this morning. Back to betty. High winds are causing a lot of problems in morning including downed power lines. Jackie ward is live in San Francisco where power just came back to some muni lines. Jackie . Reporter well, we just actually were on the bay bridge toll plaza and we made our way down here to russian hill. As most of you know, the speed limit on the bridge is 50 Miles Per Hour but at one point, we had to drop down to 30 miles an hour because the wind was just so horrific it was rocking our van back and forth. But it was looking lower vehicles as well. As we drove into closer to San Francisco, we can see the bay levels. They are so high and the wind is whipping the tides
Corner of capitol expressway and tours road. The alleged drunk driver drove this black suv to this location where we are now at center and singleton roads. Thats when a yellow vacs wagon was making a volks wagon was making a left turn. The suspect blew through the stoplights and tboned the vehicle on the right side. The volkswagen had a green signal and was beginning to make a left turn when struck by the suspects vehicle who ran the red light. That cost the volkswagen to be caused the volkswagen to be pushed forward. We believe that killed the driver of the volkswagen. Reporter it looks like center road just getting back open. Kiet do, kpix 5. Will be a wet one on the bay area roads. It was slow and go. This is highway 101 at san jose yesterday. Steady rain continues to cause challenging conditions. That includes this submerged underpass in the city of oakland. And a whole lot of snow has been accumulating up in the sierra between two and four feet. Its been snarling traffic as caltra
Ton some showers, further south into monterey. We will continue to see this activity become widely scattered throughout the afternoon. We will talk about a couple other systems that head our way throughout the week ahead. The el nino enhanced weather pattern has closed down these four sections of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area for the entire winter because of dangerous conditions. At the north beach access trail of fort funston signs tell people to stay away from the unstable cliffs. The storms have caused organizers to postpone the San Francisco boat show until late april. The main entrance to Yosemite National park remains closed because of a rock slide on highway 140. After that they will have to repair the road. For now there is no estimated day for the road to reopen. The park itself still open but its a threehour drive through the snow to get to the other entrance on the south side. Officials say all drivers must carry chains. A remainder when you see weather where you