Now at 5 00, treacherous. Heavy rain pounding the bay area. So that means your morning commute will be put to the test. Good morning on this wednesday, december 4th. Jobina will have a look at the commute in a few minutes. First we get over to meteorologist mike nicco. Lets show you live no, well start with the storm impact scale. Our exclusive way of showing you are what to expect out of this storm today. Up to a third of inch is possible with ponding on the roadways during the morning commute. Altamont pass was foggy yesterday, its wet today withstanding water. Between livermore and dublin, we have a downpour hitting that area. Another part of the east bay is getting a downpour, highway 4 from Discovery Bay to pittsburg. The rest of us have a lot of green until you get into the santa cruz mountains, that will move into the south bay. Heres jobina with a look at the commute. Good morning. A live look at the richmondsan rafael bridge. You can see the rain is coming down from our video
And plenty of people were out beginning to form on the streets. Royal Mountain Resort said theyve gotten 35 inches of snow in the last three days. But all of that snow creating a major problem for people driving to and from tahoe. Interstate 80 was closed last night for 12 hours. We have a Live Team Coverage of this weekends a storm, but first we want to check in with mark on just how much rain we can expect for the rest of weekend. The extreme amounts of the bay area could pick up over 6 inches of rain, we are talking the Santa Cruz Mountains. But everyone will pick up significant rainfall as we head into sunday and monday. In the past 24 hours, santa rosa had. 76, San Francisco. 13 but we are adding to these totals right now. And up flood watch posted for the kincade fire burn zone with expectations of 3 to 4 inches in place until 3 00 monday morning. With a possible debris flow in that area. Here is the satellite and radar, you can see the continuous stream of moisture extending out
I like it. I really like the change of weather. I kind of feel like it is a little bit early for me. I like it because we dont have to watch our water. Of course, all that rain means a lot of problems for drivers. Slick roads, it led to several crashes during morning commute. Including this one on southbound 880 were a car rear ended a truck. No one was hurt in that crash. North of there, aggression eastbound 80 in panel sent a driver to the hospital after their car spun out. We do have life Team Coverage for you. Some damage caused by the storm. Lets go to our meteorologist. Rain totals and current conditions. Rosemary . Rain not going away. We are going to remain foggy. Heres a look at what is happening on Storm Tracker two. You can see a few scattered showers over areas of north bay. Over our heels just north of areas of santa rosa seen some light shower activity. Keeping in mind, we may have a little bit of drizzle falling. If we shift over to the peninsula, a few hit or miss showe
Jose, low visibility, as well. Looking at walnut creek, with some low clouds and were going to be watching out for that throughout the morning. Mike, thats going to have drivers dealing with some really tricky driving conditions. Once again. So we had that. We had a few days to get used to it, but we dont have as much of it showing up at least on the road weather censors. We see those live cameras and we know its there. South bay up into San Francisco and oakland, neither side of the bay have any major issues. But we have a closure here, highway 4 with Traffic Control possibly until 5 00 a. M. There was a headon crash on waading over towards sevastopol. I dont know what the deal is with the he thats the case. In the north bay, vallejo and coming in towards san rafael, thats the deal. So we have a fire that destroyed an rv and damaged a neighboring home. It happened about 1 30 this morning. Firefighters arrived to find the rv fully engulfed and the upstairs part of the home on fire. No
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