San francisco 50 greekz and the reason for that is because right now we are seeing a weaker disturbance that is bringing moderate to light rainfall. San francisco has already managed to see some rain but right behind that forming just off the pacific we can see that Atmospheric River that is expected to bring heavy downpours, windy conditions which is going to be a major threat in terms of flooding which is why later tonight we will be expected to be under a microclimate alert and this is looking ahead tonight into sunday. We are expecting an inch to 3 inches of rainfall and of course those strong gusty winds as well but i will have a closer look at that timeline and what you can expect for tonights microclimate weather alert at about 7 kwln 16. People who live in the north bay are bracing for this next round of storms. Crews cutback trees that fell on utility lines and businesses are keeping their sand bags and flood barriers ready to go. Theyre stocking up with items toe keep glutter
Moment. Kari hall is tracking rain, are we going to see rain all day . Yes, unfortunately, this is moving slowly. We could see the winds gusting up to 50 miles an hour as we get a look at the storms rolling across the bay area, pretty widespread. We wont see many breaks here. And moving throughout the south bay, well see a lot of yellows and reds. The wind advisory has been extended until 3 00 in the morning. A Flash Flood Watch in effect for today. Well talk about how much rain we could see, especially in the Santa Cruz Mountains, coming up in a few minutes. We may have a couple surprises for drivers coming up. We are looking over here to the peninsula, we have mostly clear flows of traffic. The green highlighted means wet roadways, so our chopper could not make it out to the scene, but we have a crew at 101 where all lanes are closed and the woodside traffic is flowing to the freeway. You may want to take el cimino if you are local. North of the crash and north of the flooding across
Moment. Kari hall is tracking rain, are we going to see rain all day . Yes, unfortunately, this is moving slowly. We could see the winds gusting up to 50 miles an hour as we get a look at the storms rolling across the bay area, pretty widespread. We wont see many breaks here. And moving throughout the south bay, well see a lot of yellows and reds. The wind advisory has been extended until 3 00 in the morning. A Flash Flood Watch in effect for today. Well talk about how much rain we could see, especially in the Santa Cruz Mountains, coming up in a few minutes. We may have a couple surprises for drivers coming up. We are looking over here to the peninsula, we have mostly clear flows of traffic. The green highlighted means wet roadways, so our chopper could not make it out to the scene, but we have a crew at 101 where all lanes are closed and the woodside traffic is flowing to the freeway. You may want to take el cimino if you are local. North of the crash and north of the flooding across
Moment. Kari hall is tracking rain, are we going to see rain all day . Yes, unfortunately, this is moving slowly. We could see the winds gusting up to 50 miles an hour as we get a look at the storms rolling across the bay area, pretty widespread. We wont see many breaks here. And moving throughout the south bay, well see a lot of yellows and reds. The wind advisory has been extended until 3 00 in the morning. A Flash Flood Watch in effect for today. Well talk about how much rain we could see, especially in the Santa Cruz Mountains, coming up in a few minutes. We may have a couple surprises for drivers coming up. We are looking over here to the peninsula, we have mostly clear flows of traffic. The green highlighted means wet roadways, so our chopper could not make it out to the scene, but we have a crew at 101 where all lanes are closed and the woodside traffic is flowing to the freeway. You may want to take el cimino if you are local. North of the crash and north of the flooding across
Potential of some flooding there. We get a live look outside, you can tell why the rain just continues to pour. And we are seeing some pockets of really heavy rain moving through much of the bay ear right now with a steady downpour for the north bay. A lot of yellows and redis here. A steady downpour for the north bay with some pockets of heavier rain for parts of moran county. Now, as we go through San Francisco, a lot of heavy rain here. Its been coming down at a rate of about a quarter to a half an inch of rain for about an hour. As we go south of San Francisco, a lot of rain there as well, moving through paolo alto. This is what we can expect for the next several hours, pockets of thunderstorms later on today. Ill talk more about that and also the wind speeds we are expecting in just a few minutes. Kari thank you so much. The totals here, river levels across the bay area rising right now. That is true in waterlogged Santa Cruz Mountains. Nbcs bob burdell has been closely watching t