Inches. A little over two inch at santa rosa. Other locations will see the rainfall totals increasing. The animation starting at 7 00 shows the heavier rain tapering to showers in the overnight hours. More to come in the forecast a little bit later. Thank you very much. The rain should taper off tonight, as spencer said, but its still coming down. No one knows that better than our reporters in the bay area. We have more live starting with wayne. Reporter ive got to tell you honestly, we looked around, not one single pineapple fell out of the sky and hit us on the head today. There were a lot of raindrops winds, problems. We drove a lot of miles. If you hit the streets or highways of the north bay, it could be you felt like a road warrior, a wet one. Most of us survived, but there were casualties. Be careful when youre driving because its very wet out here. Reporter heres lucas valley road at 101 in san rafael. A jeep versus a divider. Now forestville and sonoma county. The drive hit a
Still pretty gusty. 43 miles an hour at halfmoon bay. 41 in navato and 31 Miles Per Hour in napa. Ill be back with a look at the rainfall totals and the next storm that will aif he could your weekend plans. Thank you very much. This is how it looked and sounded in downtown santa rosa. A downpour turned the streets into rivers at noon. Look at this. People had a hard time holding on to umbrellas. The gutters could not keep up with the rain. It stilled over on to the streets. Wayne freedman is live with more on the effects in the north bay. Theres been a lot of rain so far, wayne, but not too many problems, right . Thats true dan. A lot of rain in places. An hour ago here we saw the heaviest rain all day. Big winds, big rain. It seems to have subsided behind us. The evening commute. We warned you. Here it is. You can call it a slam dunk for rain drops, anyway. Welcome to ground zero for arrival of the pineapple express. They warned us to expect a torrent, run for your lives. Instead, we
30 miles per hour. Now we want to go to Marianne Favro with more on how the south bay homeowners are bracing for the big storm. Reporter many people consider the last storm a dress recess hearsal for this one, expected to dump 4 inches of rain in the santa cruz mountains. Today was a day to prepare. The rush for roof repairs is under way. After this repair job is completed there are dozens more waiting. Good morning, los gatos roofing, this is tina. Reporter its not just because of the rain. Its the sun and uv rays over a long period of time that inevitably will break down a roofing system and create leaks. Weve gone through a couple of years now of very little rain and a lot of sunshine. The more sunshine without rain, the more problems that youre going to have. This is a good example. Reporter you should also be concerned about your trees, says certified arborist brian mcgovern. He inspects trees to determine if theyre at risk of falling during a storm. He also says the drought could
Forced to close their runs, and a tree fell across interstate 0. Look at this the storm even produced lightning in the Central Valley. This video came from our affiliate in sacramento this afternoon afternoon. Thats wild. Lets turn to live doppler h. D. And Spencer Christian. This looked like a genuine pineapple express. It was. It produced a huge amount of rainfall. A lot of moisture content and brought mild air. Heres live doppler 7 h. D. As you see, the second wave of stormy not that moved through storminess that moved through is pushing out to the east and south, though theres still wet weather covering the remainder of the area. Lets close in on locations that are receiving the heaviest rainfall. Walnut creek, points east. To the south bay, heavy rain near san jose. Mainly pushing away from the area now. Over in the sierra a change required on all the major highways except highway 4 going into and out of the central sierra. Snow is falling. The bulk is in the higher elevations, bu
Sacramento this afternoon. In the sierra chains a must for drivers heading up to the mountains. Good evening. Lets start with 7 news meteorologist drew and live doppler 7hd hi drew. Hi. We are in the end of our first storm right now but still some active weather. About we show you much of the regis dealing with just some light showers at this hour. But one location especially in the inland east bay still has some moderate rain activity right now around vallejo and around fairfield. Do notice yell with moderate rainfall at this hour pushing off to the north and east near sacramento push a bit farther to the South San Francisco right now just on the edge of some dryer weather san m teo Mountain View and san jose light showers at this hour. Wider view put this into motion we show you the back edge of the precipitation now working through San Francisco and pushing off to the north an east. So much of the rain will be ending over the next hour or so. Take a look at rainfall the past 24 hour