Clouds that look a little ominous earlier today, as this system approached. Clear skies in the sierra, which boodly needs snow if were going to avoid another drought. Good evening, im dan ashley. So hard to believe actually mentioning drought, just a few days before the start of winter. That is the reality, when its been this dry lately. Some parts of the bay area, have received only 1 of normal rainfall so far this season. Spencer christian is here with a look at how much tonights storm is going to change that. As you can see, we have areas of moisture moving through the bay area right now. The steadier rain is up north. Over the last three hours, its been moving in the typical northwest to southeast fashion, that will be its movement as it swings down into the bay area, later tonight. Once again, lets revisit those percentages. Normally this time in december, San Francisco would have had about 2 1 2 inches of rain or more. So far this winter, San Francisco has received 2 100 of an in
46 degrees right now in fairfield. 47 in vallejo. 42 in santa rosa. Warmer in the south bay 48 degrees. Rain is moving out of the forecast but will be moving back in and ill tell you when coming up. We are dealing with wet roads and ponding likely the cause of some of these accidents that we are tracking. Westbound 4 just past mcewan a car crashed into a tree wrapped around that and emergency crews are on the scene. They have one lane blocked along highway 4 as youre approaching mcewan. And that backup is really starting to stretch, cruising speeds around 30 Miles Per Hour until you get past that accident making your way on over towards 80. Its about a 20minute ride from 680 over to 80. Westbound 4 and bailey road, offramp blocked due to an accident so expect delays. 580, the usual slowdowns between 205 and 680, 27 minutes. President trump could sign the gop tax plan into law by the end of the day. Senate republicans passed the measure early this morning. But as John Lawrence explains,
You can see that there are some raindrops on the camera. So thats probably left over from the showers. Everything is going to clear up as the sun comes up this morning. Our temperatures right now in san jose, 48 degrees. Cooler in the north bay where those clouds have moved through and theres no longer that cover to keep things warm. 40 degrees there. Concord 47. Oakland the warmest right now at 51 degrees. Your headlines are a few light showers, a breezy cool afternoon and ill tell you when more rain is on the way. Jaclyn. Well, 4 has been the hot spot this morning. We have tracked a number of separate incidents along this stretch of highway causing delays for many drivers so well begin with the newest one that were tracking along the bypass of highway 4 there, this is right near laurel road, a rollover crash blocking one lane creating a backup. Speeds drop below 35 Miles Per Hour. Your ride a bit sluggish out of antioch and then continues to be slow through pittsburg. That crash near
I would not be surprised to see some upper thirties about 7 00 in the east bay as skies clear clear behind this front. You can see it right there with some cold air coming in. Fifties on your temperatures today. Maybe even some midfifties to the north. A good breeze. Allie tells us it was okay during the 4 00 hour. How about now . Things are getting busier. A new issue just came up at the toll plaza. First, lets have a look at the maps from the south bay. If youre driving from gilroy to morgan hill on 101 you will be fine until you get to capital expressway onramp northbound 101. Two vehicles involved in a crash that are blocking the slope lanes. No residual impact. Further north southbound 880 at the whipple offramp a new crash. Further north of that, highway four there are two issues. There was a wreck that is still an issue over there. The new one that came up is on the right hand of your screen, westbound highway four with a vehicle blocking the bailey road offramp. The bay bridge
In and lower snow levels are also coming in. A Winter Weather advisory until one a clock. East we temperatures dropping. Blackhawk and walnut creek not 43. Maybe upper 30s in the next hour or so if we can clear out everything. For our system that is it. Now just get ready for the cold and breeze. 50s for the temperatures today. 56 santa rosa. It doesnt seem like this is causing too many problems on highway four, but we will look at the map. Highway four list see, this is westbound highway four with a wreck being freed out of the way. 880 north and southbound is what youre looking at now. No major problems there to report. Hopefully, we are approaching Holiday Light traffic with more people taking the holiday off were getting ready to get out of town. Maybe not heading into work during the next several days. Maybe it will be nice for the rest of the week. Toll plaza still pretty busy. 20 25 minute wait approaching the span. I will send it back to dave and pam. The most sweeping rewrite