Chinese new year parade, San Francisco tradition that always draws tens of thousands of people. They fill the streets there in downtown. Yes, we will be there and ktvu will be broadcasting the parade. You can join in on the celebration. While the parade happens rain shine, it looks like well escape the wet stuff tonight. We will need to bundle up though. We will not escape the cold. It is going to be chilly so dress with a with Winter Weather in mind. We will be dry tonight. Partly cloudy but temperatures on the cool side. Lets take a look at what is going on as we begin your saturday morning. And nice shot there with mostly clear skies, temperatures freezing and below freezing in some areas. Take a look at the numbers in just a moment. Lets take a look at the satellite view, we have the northwest flow in place. So for today and futurecast model show you we are expecting partly cloudy skies into the second part of the day, i am going to stop it for you about lunch time, partly sunny to
Reporter it looks great. People are excited. It is cool and not raining. The crowds are packing it in. If youre hoping to get to union square, that ship has sailed. We are 10 people deep on that corner. This is not the start or the finish. This is the tv zone. This is what you will see on tv. We have julie haener hosting. And stretches down to macys on gary. That is where the ask will stop and show their stuff. It is an amazing parade. One of the only night parades in north america. The largest celebration of asian culture outside of asia. We look forward to it every year. We will take you behind the scenes because we can. This is a big ktvu production. They have been here all week setting up. We have been planning for months. We want to take you into the production truck. We like to give you the behind the scenes look. To show you what goes into making a broadcast work. We will take you up the stairs where the crew has been ready to go all night long. They are in the final preparation
Steady rain since 6 00 last night. Drivers have encountered pools of standing water on the roads. Be careful out there. Along with the rain we had strong winds and gusts were reported at 40 miles per hour. At sfo they had to change the landing pattern so that planes could come in from the north. This does happen occasionally. Dozens of flights were delayed. Some up to 2 1 2 hours. And a winter storm warning is now in effect in the sierra. The snow started coming down overnight. Several inches are expected to fall throughout the day. And chains are required on i80 and highway 50. We want to check in now with steve to see how long the rain system will last. Morning and then we get a break this evening. And one more system friday but not as strong. All day tomorrow . No, evening. Thank you. Any time. Some of the rain totals were pretty good for the first system of a ridge of High Pressure. Record highs were off the chart. This system had a pretty good punch. St. Helena over an inch. And g
And im pam cook and its friday eve. I count on that. Thats a friday eve smile. And whats the forecast for friday eve. I need some rain but the weekend will be fine. Is it going to last all the way through the evening commute . Today or tomorrow . Today. Today is just morning. We have a parade on saturday. Ive heard about it. That looks good . Yeah. We have the system giving us hit and miss rain but theres plenty to go. And some may be brief and heavy. Paul cueto is out in martinez. Boy, howdy. Love that. Started raining 5 30 and 3 4 of an inch of rain. And3 4 to an inch for many locations. The system is swinging through in the morning and it will be a more stable atmosphere in the afternoon. Rain up in lake county and parts of mendocino county. And marin county starting to move over. Heading to san rafael. And you can see that and over to the east bay. And oakley and Bethel Island and in the santa cruz mountains. So we still have some that are pockets of moderate to heavy. 40s on a lot