sfo redwood city 1.5 now the atmospheric river is aimed at southern california but here is what we are watching. an area of low pressure developing. cold unstable air coming in our direction. right now they are chaining up on all roads leading to tahoe. it has turned to snow now. winter storm warning until 4:00 a.m. saturday. two to four let's look at sierra travel. friday snowing, saturday snowing. we go into sunday. that is your opportunity to go. dry for your president's day, you are good to go if you are heading up on monday. it is breezy outside. localized flooding risk continues. we are looking at cold showers and cold over the peaks friday through sunday. on our storm impact scale it is now a level 2. scattered downpours with the flooding possibility. hour by hour we go. 7:00 p.m. tonight. 930 it is over san francisco north bay, east bay, by level 30. some of this turning to snow as we head towards late tonight and going into late tomorrow. first thing tomorrow morning do look for temperatures in the 30s and 40s. colder than this morning. expect snow showers around mendocino cou

we are tracking the wind with 10 mile an hour wind in hayward, redwood city, sfo the south oakland withle an hour wind in berkeley out of the south. we expect a wet ndd wian finally over. where looking at scattered showers heading through the afternoon. we are not done yet but widespread heavy rain is now ending. we are looking at flrningsue aa the rain into the north bay for the last two days for sonoma and county flood warnings for the napa county and sonoma county. the flood stage, cresting tonight with the highest river level since 1995, the six highest river level of the russian river at guerneville ever recorded. >>> at the napa river, crested with moderate flooding, 2.5 feet above flood stage. here's the satellite and radar view showing that stalled frontal boundary bringing torrential rain over the last two days into the north bay with that trough of low pressure kicking out the front with the atmospheric river pushing to the south. we are beginning to see changes with more quiet weather. we are not yet done with the wet weather, scattered showers at 7 am as we head through the

mornings with tropical air for this season. 29 mile an hour wind out of half moon bay, 19 it redwood city, 20 at sfo with 25 in downtown san francisco. 20 mile an hour out of the southeast in oakland and 28 in berkeley with one of the windier spots, 20 miles an hour out of vallejo. the storming headlines, every rain moving south this afternoon and evening in to the south bay. steady rain ending by tomorrow morning, turning into showers by tomorrow afternoon. for the satellite and radar view you can see this tropical rain coming in with this tropical moisture that is interacting with this stalled out frontal boundary over the north bay. that is why in the north bay, you are seeing so much rain over the short period of time. timing it out on the futurecast hour-by-hour, 8 am with heavy rain, the north bay, east bay and the peninsula through the afternoon. the southbay could still be dry in the early afternoon with heavy rain still in the north bay. finally at 6 pm it will be working its way down into the southbay. we have heavy rain by tonight for the southbay at 11 pm with rain to scattered showers f

sfo covered in a little bit of green. redwood cityot rain and into the santa cruz mountains widespread rain boulder creek scots valley to the coastline at santa cruz. for the east bay it's been very spotty over areas of highway 24. and 580, 680 and you can see that continues from walnut creek through san ramon and livermore i've got rainfall overhead. and here's view of what's happening in the sierra. snow levels right at about 4 or 5,000 feet for today. and then we will be dropping as we get into the monday, tuesday time frame. and here's the futurecast. here's the afternoon. and still the showers continuing. and here's tonight. that rain picks up once again. and this is going to move through. and behind it, tomorrow morning, for your drive, expect the scattered showers. but also begin to notice we have got colors in there. we have got pinks and whites and purples and that is indicating lower snow. so lake county down into our north bay location mount tam at some point mount diablo and mount hamilton a look at monday evening where yo

26 miles an hour in san jose, 14 and mountain view, 27 mile an hour at southeast redwood city, 27 at half moon bay, sfo and 24 in san francisco. we have seen the wind gusting in oakland up to 35 miles an hour, currently 14 in san rafael. here's the satellite and radar view showing that tropical moisture coming in from hawaii with this atmospheric river event bringing in rain for the entire state. here is the future cast as we take you through the morning with the worst of it this morning with the heaviest rain and strongest wind. the north bay is getting a drenching even at 7 am with widespread rain through the morning. light rain and scattered showers through the afternoon. tonight into tomorrow morning the rain will pick up again for round two at 6 pm with moderate to heavy rainfall pushing in. that is as well through thursday morning with another round of rain and wind. the rainfall amounts, as much as eight inches in the north bay mounts, six inches in th santa cruz mountains, 2 to 4 inches in the san francisco peninsula, three inches in the east bay and 1 to 2 inches in the south bay. this is like

temperatures are mild as we track the wind at 12 mile an hour in redwood city, 19 at half moon bay, 17 at sfoa two mile an hour into downtown san francisco, 16 in oakland. the wind advisory is extended until 6 am for the hills and the coast with rainy and windy conditions this morning. we will have steady rain moving out with the wind easing. we have scattered showers this afternoon with isolated thunderstorms or heavy downpours, but a little bit of sunshine through the day. we are talking about the russian river at guerneville with major flooding expected. it will likely crest at more than 46 feet by tonight. we are talking several feet above flood stage and the russian river at guerneville with the highest river level we have seen since 1995. that is the six highest ever. the russian river at healdsburg crushing and cresting but we continue to monitor the river at napa as well as the russian river. here is your satellite and radar view showing that stalled frontal boundary that was hanging around for two days of the north bay with that trough of low pressure kicking out the front with the a

as we head to the south, you can see redwood city, menlo park, road street level to woodside, all wet right now. the roads look like the tarmac does here at sfo. a lot of standing water. we're going to have delays at sfo, obviously. early rain, steady. showers afterwards. tonight, cooler with scattered lighter showers and tracking two more storms to the extended forecast. here we go. future radar starting at 7:00. a lot of green out there. we will pulse up to moderate showers as we head after the 7:00 hour up until noon. you can see scattered showers, light to moderate. green to yellow. by 6:00, they become light and more scattered as a cold front pushes through. the steadiest and best chance during the overnight hours. the diablo range and to a lesser extent the south bay, as we head through the day tomorrow, that same area has a slight chance of showers. you can start to see clearing. i put the clouds on here, the gray to show you the sun comes out tomorrow, especially in the north way. reset our potential for rain and starting this morning, through this evening, another tenth, maybe a quarter of an inch. that's about it. so the heaviest of

redwood city. very light rain but what i cut off the wind has been picking up and a good breeze out there. there is a pretty good breeze around sfoning long to san mateo bridge in 18-25 miles an hour. i know it can get stronger but it has been blustery at times. 4:00 a.m. 25-30 miles an hour. sera ville 5000 feet, another beautiful morning in the sierra valley. light snow showers continuing in the mountains maybe isolated 3 -6 intra mounds. more snow on top of that snow as the system dives to southern california. it will moving to arizona, keeping them very cool, a pretty big system for them. light showers skirting parallel to the coast. they start north and favor areas along the coast from marin, san mateo, santa cruz mounds in monterey. light rain, 30s for a few, 40s and 50s. after the system, we have to watch the system coming from the hawaiian islands, that may play late sunday into monday, a warmer system. cloudy to mostly cloudy, breezy, 50s on the thames. sal is here to tell you about the traffic. >> east bay, slowest traffic there although we will not forget the peninsula and silicon valley. east bay 37 minutes pretty goo