Business owners here. This is cbs news bay area with juliette goodrich. Here we go, heavy rain, even thunder hitting the bay area for the friday commute and an intense winter storm is pounding the sierra for a second day. The blizzard conditions expected to last until sunday and you can see just what they are dealing with. In fact, this semi Truck Driving slowly through donner pass along interstate 80 through the blinding snow and Hurricane Force winds. And the people who are on the roads arent getting very far. Caltrans cameras show a line of big rigs just parked. Look at them. No cars there. This is at castle peak. Traffic is held for a couple miles east of baxter to the nevada state line because of multiple spinouts. We bring it back here to the bay area. It is a wet friday commute with rain falling heavy at times. Weve even had thunder and lightning. The rain was coming down and the wind was whipping in hercules. This was at highway 4 and interstate 80. The wet weather already caus
Right to lisa whos live in the Weather Center tracking the very latest on this level. One storm, one that woke us both up this morning, huh . Yeah. We still have a few lightning bolts out there. Some rumbles of thunder later on today were going to get in some sun and a little bit of rain to start, and then more downpours throughout the afternoon. Heres a look at live doppler seven. We can see the lightning bolts in north of ukiah and the blizzard still growing strong in the Sierra Nevada. Wind gusts up to 80 miles an hour. Over 100 miles an hour at our peaks. Look at the heavy rain from crockett to hercules down through richmond. 580 and 680 towards walnut creek. Snow mixed in with lighter rain from yountville. Highway 12 and eldridge, and then back towards the coast and mill valley. Mount tam some snow, more rain, the richmondsan rafael bridge there and then a cell right about to move into San Francisco. Some moderate rain and down around the Santa Cruz Mountains. Mount hamilton it is
Some of our Traffic Cameras right there. You can see the wet roads, gloomy skies. The weather is causing some problems including power outages. Crews are cleaning up at the San Francisco National Cemetery tonight, after this massive tree fell right on down. Luckily, no one was hurt. Thank you for joining us tonight. The active weather, far from over. Another round hitting right now. Meteorologist is here with whats happening at the moment. Rob . San jose is an interesting view, as its sort of in a picture what weve been seeing this saturday. Sun at times, downpours, hail, gusty wind. Right now, areas south of san jose on the area, around morgan hill, thats where youre having heavy rain, some hail mixed with this line of showers, including severe thunderstorms, which have prompted the special marine warning offshore for the potential of damaging wind gusts and another one just added in there, approaching monterey bay through 6 00 tonight, as this comes onshore. Were likely to get accumu
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Bay on this first alert weather day. The wet and windy conditions prompting a shutdown in the sunset district and nearby stern grove remains closed going back to a previous storm. The big weather headline is a monster snowstorm bearing down on the sierra and you been keeping an eye on this all week and the storm is finally here. Absolutely. On highway 50 as you drive up, you can see how much this will impact conditions, just getting on the roads, 5 to 7 feet in places like strawberry over to myers. As we look at this system, there is a lot to unpack. Strong wind, heavy rain at times, very heavy snow and blizzard conditions from the sierra. To add to that, Cool Temperatures from the gulf of alaska. As we look at the system, rain and snow is falling in the foothills stretching into the Higher Elevations from 5000 feet and above, they can see up to 5 to 12 feet of snow. That is one of the strongest systems of the season. Back in the bay we have dry conditions near San Francisco. On and of