Live look outside, might be dry at moment but all going to change in 24 hours. Chief meteorologist jeff ranieri is tracking all the start with storm ranger mobile doppler radar. Dry from north bay to south bay. Put a zoom on this, initial signs of the storm system not far off shore. Some cloud cover about 200 miles out in pacific. Even wider look. Cold front on friday and center of the storm system looking to get her saturday to continue the rainfall chances. Rain on friday, dont see big wet weather for morning. Maybe spotty showers north of santa rosa. Well have to wait until the afternoon to start to see this dropping on down. Been timin chn this, going to take a while to sweep ac b area. Tabout that, sierra snow, wind gusts, wrap it up and take you into the weekend in about 18 minutes. Reservoir levels. Thanks to all the rain, many of the states reservoirs are more than half full. Folsom lake over half, lake oroville, 55 , lake shasta, vest and new mel ownes lake is chopping. Keep t
About mixture of sun and clouds throughout the morning, time to clean up the leaves and get ready for the rain moving in by this afternoon. Taking a look at storm ranger all dry right now, but once again, that storm lingering just off to the coast and will be moving in producing some rain from north to south as we go throughout the day. So the rain first moves into the north bay by early this afternoon and then much of the bay area covered with rain by the evening commute. So ill have more on this and how much were going to see, coming up. Mike, those road crews are working hard. They, kari, with the fog rolling through as you showed in walnut creek that is a concern. On the north side of the Golden Gate Bridge you can see the lane closed heading out of San Francisco. Theyre still there. That will be an issue, restricting traffic to one lane at the north side and the fog the concern as folks roll through the morning. It registers over on the road weather index highway 4, concord, pitts
But heavy rainfall after that point pushing out into the bay area come the evening tonight, so maybe maybe not your best weekend to be heading out and about at least tonight into tomorrow morning. A good one to stay inside get cozy and just enjoy a night in as we work our way into the evening Still Holding on to those heavy areas of rainfall. You can see the abundance of orange red and yellow in this forecast that indicates widespread areas of heavy rain and when you see so much rain at that intensity for a long time. Thats when you do start to see some standing water on roadways. We do have risk of some flash flooding up in the north bay, though some flash flood advisories for some of our north bay counties are in napa and sonoma counties between 04 00pm tonight and 04 00pm tomorrow afternoon is our peak rainfall at times after that we do see showers dying down and even though sunday brings a few isolated scattered showers will be nears intense as what we are looking at this next 24 h
Continue to thick through areas heres a look at the storm that bay area rain, sierra snow and advisories. A bay area wind advisory for the afternoon. A Flash Flood Watch for our north bay communities and a winter storm warning for this year. Details on that come up in just a few moments. Time now is 5 01. Good morning, we have a problem on the bay bridge. We are going to look at it now. Lets go right to the bay bridge and you canee. It is slow across the span. The traffic is slowing down. Kevin, if you can hear me, if you pan to the right, if you go past the buildings here, i think you are going to be able to see the traffic extends into San Francisco. And this is a big problem, because it is going bbig commute coming into San Francisco. This morning, on the bay bridge, it had been so good. But see how the traffic continues going . So we are going to check that out for you and let you know, coming pack 5 02, lets go bac desk. Rosemary told you, by this afternoon, we expect rain in the
Meteorologist kari hall will let us know if that storm will bring a weekend washout. Plus, the new year will bring higher fares on b. A. R. T. Well break down how much more youre going to pay for your commute. And its going gaga for lady gaga. The New California popup store that the pop star just unveiled. Well show you whats in store. Today in the bay continues right now. Thanks for joining us on this soon to be rainy friday. Im kris sanchez in for laura garcia. Im marcus washington. The rain is coming our way, kari. The good thing is you have the morning and part of the afternoon to prepare for the rain. The fog is the issue right now and visibility in the trivalley and parts of the east bay cut down to about a quarter mile or less. In fact, thats a look at our dublin camera, wow, you can barely see anything. So just slow down as you make your way out the do are. Checking out storm ranger we are seeing dry conditions. Ill time it out for you, well go hour by hour coming up in a few m