Sonoma County Faces Heightened Risk of Landslides After Fires
Mudslides often happen after wildfires, because the brush has burned away and the soil is less porous.
View ArticleA Very Welcome Rain
Many people are very thankful that our first rainfall of the season was heavier than expected. Mount Tamalpais received the most rain last night but, more importantly, much of Napa and Sonoma counties...
View ArticleMild, Blustery Storm Passes; Cold Christmas Eve Rain Next
Update, 8:55 a.m. Tuesday: The storm’s heaviest rain has moved south of the central Bay Area, into the Santa Cruz Mountains, the highlands along the Big Sur coast and well beyond. As forecast, the...
View ArticleA Healthy Shot of Rain — and Possible Harbinger of Series of Storms
Update, 11:20 a.m. Friday: Selected rainfall totals for the 48 hours ending at 10 a.m. Friday: Location Amount (in.) Venado (Sonoma County) 3.32 Mount Tamalpais 3.29 Olema (West Marin) 1.68 St. Mary’s...
View ArticleBay Area Gets Its First Real Rain of the Season
Updated 10 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 3 The Bay Area’s first storm of the season — the first real storm — rolled across the region overnight, bringing a healthy soaking to hills and valleys alike. According to...
View ArticleRain in June? No Drought-Buster, But We’ll Take It
Update, Thursday, June 11: From the National Weather Service, here are some of the precipitations records (and other rain totals) recorded during Wednesdays mostly light but very welcome showers: Place...
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San Francisco Bay Area Moistened by Something Like Rain
It’s so unusual in this season of endless drought, we have to mention it: Streets, sidewalks and parking lots in San Francisco and across the parched Bay Area have been moistened overnight by a...
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Storm Spreads Throughout Bay Area; SFO Flights Impacted
Update, 5 p.m.: Wind and rain continues to hammer much of the Bay Area as the workday comes to a close. Google Traffic is showing several incidents snarling traffic on I-80, I-580 and 101 southbound. A...
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Photos: Storm Scenes From Around the Bay Area
A much anticipated storm finally hit the Bay Area early Thursday morning, bringing with it flooding, high winds and power outages. Heavy rainfall is expected to continue throughout Thursday, with wind...
View ArticleAnother Day of Storm-Related Delays at SFO
It’s been a particularly trying week for airline passengers flying to or departing from San Francisco International Airport, with long flight delays and scores of canceled flights. The busy facility...
View ArticleHave You Ever Heard the Rain? A Stormy Weather Playlist
Update, Dec. 2: We’ve added a few dozen more rain and storm-themed songs to help us make it through the wet week ahead. Enjoy! And keep sharing your suggestions in the comments section below or on our...
View ArticleThis Week’s Rain Unlikely to Dent Drought
An October downpour in Vallejo. Despite such cloudbursts, early storms like this one failed to deliver much rain to most of the Bay Area. (Craig Miller/KQED) Rain storms expected to blow through the...
View ArticleA Fourth Drought Year for California: What Are the Odds?
Two prominent California water experts advise: Don’t bet on wet. …read more Source: Science News
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Bay Area Storm Triggers Flood Alert and Power Outages, Topples Trees
A pedestrian in downtown Oakland during storm earlier this week. (Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED) 4 p.m. Friday Update(BCN): Many trees have toppled over in San Francisco today as a storm moves through the...
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After the Rain: How Much of a Dent Did the Storm Put in the Drought?
Pedestrian on San Francisco’s Embarcadero during Bay Area’s first major storm of 2014. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) ((Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) Anyone who dares discuss our weather, climate or...
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Berkeley in the Rain: A Soggy, Beautiful Weekend
By Tracey Taylor Berkeleyside Eucalyptus grove on the Nimitz Trail. (Colleen Neff/Berkeleyside) It rained on and off — but mostly on — all weekend and, according to the forecast, that is all we are...
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News Pix: Rain! Olympics! Surveillance! Books! Dogs!
The Bay Area is finally getting some rain, the most the area has seen since the very rainy December of 2012. North Bay hills and the Santa Cruz Mountains could get more than half a foot of rain by the...
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Look! It’s Wet Outside! Or, a Light Rain Falls in San Francisco
Dramatic evidence of the rain that fell on San Francisco overnight. (Dan Brekke/KQED News) Well, we got our rain. Most of Northern California is decidedly damper this morning than it was a day or two...
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Semi-Unusual June Rain: Bay Area Precipitation Totals
Update, 10:35 a.m. As advertised by human forecasters and their numerical weather models, this morning’s rain has been heaviest north of the Golden Gate, with mostly light — very light — totals to the...
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Potent Spring Storm Hits Northern California
Forecasters predict a strong spring storm that will pass through Northern California has the potential to flood a river and soak Bay Area cities. Showers in the Bay Area will intensify Thursday night...
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