California Weather & Water: How Full Are the Reservoirs?
An ongoing project we started in the KQED newsroom last winter: California Reservoir Watch. What does the watch show today? Most of our reservoirs are just sloshing with water after a wet fall. And...
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Navy Considers Medal, 65 Years After a Heroic Act (Bay Citizen) Carl E. Clark, 94, served in World War II to defend America, not to win glory. “We just figured it was a war that had to be won,” said...
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North Bay Wine Makers Rush to Get Crops In
A worker nudges cluster of pinot noir grapes onto a sorting table. (Photo by: Mina Kim/KQED)The first autumn rains hit the Bay Area Monday, leaving some North Bay winemakers scrambling to get their...
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Has the Bay Area Gotten Enough Rain Yet?
Drizzle spoiled your Easter egg hunt. You stepped in puddles on your way to work on Thursday. And the petals fell off your drenched camellias. So, have we finally gotten enough rain? Is Lake Oroville...
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Bay Area Rain: If You Blinked, You Missed It
Over the Bay Area this morning: nice clouds, but barely any rain. (Dan Brekke/KQED) I saw some evidence of precipitation, right here in the Bay Area, this morning about 6:30. The pavement outside my...
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News Flash: Forecasters Say It Might Rain; Really — It Might
Actual Bay Area raindrops pictured during their last local appearance on Jan. 11. (Dan Brekke/KQED) The National Weather Service is saying that it’s looking more and more likely that people in the Bay...
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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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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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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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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) Anyone who dares discuss our weather, climate or California’s drought seems to take...
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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...
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
View ArticleCalifornia Weather & Water: How Full Are the Reservoirs?
An ongoing project we started in the KQED newsroom last winter: California Reservoir Watch. What does the watch show today? Most of our reservoirs are just sloshing with water after a wet fall. And...
View ArticleMorning Splash
Navy Considers Medal, 65 Years After a Heroic Act (Bay Citizen) Carl E. Clark, 94, served in World War II to defend America, not to win glory. “We just figured it was a war that had to be won,” said...
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 ArticleHave You Ever Heard the Rain? A Stormy Weather Playlist
We know — this week’s rain, as welcome as it is, doesn’t spell an end to The Drought. But you know, we want to savor the weather while we can, each and every drop that falls from the sky onto shrinking...
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...
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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...
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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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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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