As scattered showers continue. Marin county received heaviest rainfall and reservoirs there are spilling over. Wayne freedman joins us live with the latest. Wayne . The creek is the place everyone thinks about when they think about big water in marin county. Flood stage is 13 feet they think if theyre going to see big water this is the place to go, after 17 ivenlgs of rain, this is nothing. To see a dramatic example of how much rain has fallen, it requires a bit of a still, that is not the impressive part. This is. Youre looking at alpine dam. The lake is so full, water touches the shore line. These areas are now spilling over. This system is that one reservoir is closed over to another. As of this morning marin county storage is almost 131 of normal for this date thanks to a December Christmas present in the form of rainfall. 17 inches for the month. The month is only half hour. It leads to a question, is the drought over, too . Marin benefits from a rain system built to catch rain, n
Dozens of north bay families are spending Christmas Eve in the dark. Thats after high winds toppled trees in marin county. One of which took down power lines. Good evening and happy holidays. It wasnt just marin county. Windy weather took down trees across the bay area today. In san franciscos Castro District this tree fell at sanchez and market streets blocking the sidewalk. It missed a parked car by inches, but at least no one was hurt. No one was hurt on Mountain View near highway 237 blocking the bike lane and one lane of traffic. Lets go to marin county where one downed tree is causing two big problems. Alan wang is live in san rafael. Alan . Katie, at last check 57 customers were out of power along lucas valley road. The windy gusts were replaced by cooler temperatures. Earlier today they caused a lot of problems. Tree cuter louis mendez was one hour away from christmas with his family when he got the call for a downed tree on lucas valley road. My kids are still waiting for me.
Looking live over San Francisco and san jose, the sun out of it but clouds are rolling back in. Chief meteorologist jeff ranieri is tracking the timeline. Here we go again. Exactly right. The storm system lining up offshore. A real decent plume of moisture with this as well. So it is going to be stronger than the storm system we had for yesterday. Let get right to the timeline. 8 30 tonight, most of the showers will be at least a chance of them up into the north bay by 11 30 rain dropping down into marin, napa, and sonoma counties. Yes, its going to be a wet commute for us. By 5 00 a. M. The first initial round of heavier rainfall expected down to about San Francisco. Of course well have more on the timing of that coming up. But were going to go ahead and sum things up for the first part. Tonight scattered showers developing. The fourth storm of the week arriving mainly as we head throughout tomorrow morning with not only rain but wind that could bring down more Power Outages and also
For joins. Im amma. Im dan. Today storm is the beginning of a 1, 2, 3 punch. Next one tomorrow followed by a bit of a break then third storm on friday. About spencer is tracking the rain with live doppler 7hd. Depending where you are in the bay area may experience quiet conditions or stormy conditions. We see widely scattered areas of showers and pockets of heavy downpour. Lets look at the north bay closeup view here. We see a line of cells moving just north of the golden gate in parts of marin coun and farther north we see some activity up in Sonoma County as well. A long line of delevoping system offshore manufacturing generally in our direction. Not a completely quiet night weather wise and we had powe powerful out burst in the if and flood advisory in effect for this limited area of southern Sonoma County and northern marin county. Thats in effect until 9 15. Athletic advisory will then expire. Rainfall total quite impressiv impressive. 1. 4 inches in San Francisco since 4 00 ocloc
Still, that is not the impressive part. This is. Youre looking at alpine dam. The lake is so full, water touches the shore line. These areas are now spilling over. This system is that one reservoir is closed over to another. As of this morning marin county storage is almost 131 of normal for this datehanks to a December Christmas present in the form of rainfall. 17 inches for the month. The month is only half hour. It leads to a question, is the drought over, too . Marin benefits from a rain system built to catch rain, not snow. The water spilled along storm drains and became a torrent by the time it reaches the falls. Last year at this time theyre just a trickle. Now, the closest thing to n niagara falls. That is what you get after 17 inches of rain. From marin county, wayne freedman, abc7 news looking are looking better. A week of storms raised water levels by seven feet. The folsom reservoir is only 37 but that is better than last january, when its just 17 . Lakes orville and shasta