ktvu's noelle walker and our meteorologist mark tamayo has been tracking the storms. >> this is what you would expect this time of year with systems rolling into the bay area. not overly extreme out there but some areas picking up a inch of rain, 1.47 occidental. you can see san jose, livermore, pout 47. oakland .36 and concord .18. the latest on live storm tracker 2. >> scattered showers, santa cruz mountains, over the mountains as well and showers towards the peninsula. sfo, you can see showers there and san francisco, spotty activity to report around the richmond district, towards the eastern portion of the city. and then not as much coverage in the east bay. we could have a few sprinkles around orinda. moving out of the north bay, scattered showers. also in the sierra, look at that, more snow. snow on interstate 80 and 50 at last check. today's system was system number two. this will be stronger, it will work its way into tuesday and wednesday. how much rain, details coming up in minutes. >> thank you. >>> the wet weather is impacting one of the biggest travel days of the year. k

our meteorologist mark tamayo is in the weather center now.rea got 5 inches of rain in 24 hours? >> that's right. the numbers are really adding up. we had the down pours in a short amount of time. as far as the totals and the 5 inches of rain. 5.05 inches of rain over the past 24 hours. everywhere, every neighborhood impressive numbers. an inch in most spots. santa rosa 1.66. san rafael 2 inches of rain. livermore an inch of rain. as far as the past 5 days, look at these numbers. ben lomond 5 inches. 10 inches of rainfall over the pa

our meteorologist mark tamayo. it got really cold. >> talking 30s and 40s. we will have another round of cool temperatures as we wrap up 2014. live storm tracker 2, the flow from the north, transporting the cool air. the next surge will be moving in tuesday into wednesday. right now we have the cool conditions out there. satellite, patchy low clouds and fog near the coast. around the bay. a look at the cold numbers right now, 6:00 p.m. hour, 47 degrees in fairfield. walnut creek 48. 48s in novato. napa mid-40s. chilly start monday morning, over night lows in the 40s with patchy frost possibility. a few clouds, patchy frost. coolest locations will be freezing. flappa, fair -- napa, fairfield. san francisco 44. i talked about the cool weather system to the north, this is the guy we are tracking tuesday and wednesday. energy dives into northern california, approaching the bay area. coming up, we will have more on the system and a high wind watch. >>> new information on the bicyclist that was killed that we told you about yesterday. they identified the bicyclist

our meteorologist mark tamayo is in the weather center now. one area got 5 inches of rain in 24 hours? >> that's right. the numbers are really adding up. we had the down pours in a short amount of time. as far as the totals and the 5 inches of rain. 5.05 inches of rain over the past 24 hours. everywhere, every neighborhood impressive numbers. an inch in most spots. santa rosa 1.66. san rafael 2 inches of rain. livermore an inch of rain. as far as the past 5 days, look at these numbers. ben lomond 5 inches. 10 inches of rainfall over the past few days. san francisco 4 inches. those numbers are adding up. the series of storms storms and the strongest part of the series moved in yesterday and this morning. right now a different story on live storm tracker 2. scattered showers in the santa cruz mountains, morgan hill as well. this was approaching near the peninsula an hour ago. right now over oakland. and up in the north bay not as much coverage. we will hold on to the chance of scattered showers tonight and tomorrow. and another system we are wat

as we transition to mark tamayo, remember this music, mark? ♪ >> how could you for get it, sal?reographed now. >> yes. get some moves in there as well, i guess. [laughter] >>> for the forecast today, sal was talking about the overcast and the dense fog making a comeback. keep that in mind. a lot of overcast. the rain showers pushing back into the bay area from the north. on live stormtracker2 right now, we have the rain approaching the north part of the state up towards eureka and cape mendocino. for us we have low clouds and fog. look at the visibilities beginning to improve a little bit except out towards fairfield, near zero visibility. san jose, we had visibilities, in fact, dramatically improving over the past half-hour, 45 minutes. san jose was down about 300 feet during the 7:00 hour. quickly ramping up in terms of the visibility. current numbers for your christmas eve morning are in the 40s and 50s. santa rosa, 48 degrees. hayward, 53 and livermore in the upper 40s at 48. here is our live camera looking toward the richmond/san rafael bridge. a lot of overcast. we'll be t

. >> mark tamayo is here. how cold is it going to get. >> this will be the coldest in some of the bay areas. some areas in the upper 30s at this hour. live storm tracker 2, we are in the clear. we have the brisk northernly flow developing. with that that's transporting the cold air across the region. with the cold air we have the mornings in place with a freeze warning with a purple shade to the north and south. saturday morning until 9:00 a.m. also up toward lake county as well. take a look at some of the current numbers out there. upper 30s for santa rosa and napa right now. lower 40s toward walnut creek and livermore. here's our san rafael camera looking out toward the bay. overnight lows will be back down to the 20s and 30s. patchy frost out there. very cold numbers to start off your saturday morning. upper 20s for santa rosa and napa. widespread 30s for napa and livermore and san francisco 42- degree. coming up at 10:20, i'm tracking another source of cold air. as a matter of fact it could be cooler. i wi

we want to check in with meteorologist mark tamayo. >> we get a break with mostly cloudy skies, but we have been talking about the series of storms, of course the strong one into tuesday night into wednesday morning. and just for comparison, you are talking about the big chances over the past week of the last week at this time, look at rainfall statistics for santa rosa, san francisco, oakland and san josi. everybody below 100% and a significant leap in the rainfall numbers coming up currently. look at santa rosa from 239 5" of rainfall to over 7.5". that is 94% of average. san francisco, oakland and san josi all over 100%, in fact, san josi from 70 to 160%. as we mentioned a bit of a break out there with mostly cloudy skies. some fog developing. there is a system out to our north and west that will impact the region by this time tomorrow. and into monday morning. coming up at 10:35 we have a lot to talk about, the timing of the chance of a few scattered showers for sunday night into monday and the timing of a much stronger storm, could be stronger than the one over the past few days c

. >> ktvu's mark tamayo is checking a drop in the weather. how is it looking. >> big drop in the temperatures. we started to feel that cool air moving through the region first thing this morning. the trend will continue. a chilly start expected friday morning and saturday morning. even tomorrow, we're talking about lower 30s and patchy frost developing in some of the inland valleys. current numbers out there you can't see already dropping near the 40s for santa rosa, concord, fairfield and livermore. we do have mostly clear skies up to our north but come air continues to move into the region from the north and the west. this will be the main source. the main mechanism to cool us off first thing tomorrow morning. take a look at these numbers for your friday morning, 30 degrees in napa. santa rosa 31. livermore 33. not as cold around the bay but still pretty chilly for san francisco and san mateo. cold air major play into the five day forecast. >>> you can join mark and the rest of the ktvu meteorologists online. they're posting updates on face

we begin with ktvu meteorologist mark tamayo. >> the next wave of rain approaching the coastline right now. most of the weekend so far has been dry. that will be changing over the next few hours, but especially as we head into your monday forecast. right now our live stormtracker you see that frontal system offshore and a lot of moisture to work with moving in from the south and west. with that this will be the source of some energy to produce some moderate to even some heavy rainfall as we head into your monday forecast. here is a closer look at live stormtracker 2 right now. a few scattered showers towards parts of san mateo and santa cruz counties. santa rosa reporting some light rain off and on all afternoon. there we go with the rainfall coverage closer sonoma, glen ellyn and the napa region as well. as far as the forecast model, we will keep the scattered showers very scattered in the forecast for tonight. but look what happens as we transition into your monday morning. plan on a wet monday morning commute. and then in fact this is an updated forecast, you see what happens. it de

bring in our meteorologist mark tamayo. >> outside we are waiting for the next storm. feels like it holidays out there. we will add more rain drops over the next few hours. get ready for storm number three. we have been talking about rainfall over the past couple weeks. the numbers are adding up. for december. look that numbers. san rafael 15 inches of rain. san francisco 10 inches. san jose 7-1/2 inches. and we are adding more rainfall to the buckets. next system, storm number three moves in tomorrow. rainfall expectingsieses. quarter inch to -- expectations, quarter inch to an inch. winds gusting to 30 miles per hour. high surf advisory tomorrow afternoon through saturday. waves around 10-15 feet. live storm tracker 2 right now, clouds over us and scattered showers beginning to develop across the bay area. a few sprinkles in the east bay. the north bay as well. the main dynamics is up here, off shore to the north and west and the cold front will be the source of heavy rainfall for the friday morning commute. that is tomorrow. moderate to heavy rainfall. dawn pours fr

our meteorologist mark tamayo has a look and what's in store for your work week. >> heather, yeah, a few light showers, a few sprinkles in the bay area forecast, especially up in the north bay tonight and monday morning. right now on live storm tracker 2, this looks like a december weather pattern out there. finally you see a very active jet stream developing, all being pointed toward northern california. in the short-term, as we mentioned, we do have possibility of a few scattered showers out there. the rainfall is really focused to our north, up along the north coast, toward humboldt county, mendocino county as well, and some of this energy will be sliding to the south over the next 12 to 18 hours. in fact, here's the forecast model showing you this. overnight, the fog regrouping in the central valley, up to our north and west. a few scattered showers approaching the bay area. nothing too significant, but still a chance, even if you're not covered, the chance of a few pop-up showers for tonight and into monday morning. you can see right around 1:00 monday afternoon, we could have m

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>> our terms mark tamayo is tracking it all. >> once again, two mornings in a rho talking about low 30ssubfreezing from a few neighborhoods across parts of bayou bowl. no frost advisories, but we'll have areas of frost as we do start our sunday morning. this is not only here in the bay area, but across a good portion of the state. in fact, here is a look at current numbers, 23 degrees in truckee right now. sacramentoo, 41 and what is happening we have more of a cooler air mass moving in from the north and that air pattern remains in place. current numbers showing 41 degrees in santa rosa, napa, checking in at 40. slightly warmer than 10:00 yesterday at this time. san francisco in the upper 40s and san josi currently checking in at 42 degrees. your first look at your sunday morning lows, subfreezing in napa. 30 degrees and lots of lower 30s for santa rosa, antioch, san francisco 43 dregrees. so starting out the day with patchy frost and i'm tracking another surge of cold air in the bay area with your updated five-day coming up in a little bit. >>> people were like where did you get that?

. >>> want to check now on your bay area forecast and our meteorologist mark tamayo is tracking a little more rain for us. >> just a few showers out there, heather. over the past few weeks, we've been tracking multiple storms out there, multiple rain clouds. the weather pattern changing up a bit. you see scattered rain on the radar, especially north of the bay area, also towards the sierra. good news there, snowfall totals over the past 24 hours with the storm totals around 6 to 12 inches. a nice dusting, actually more than a dusting up in the mountains. let's talk about the scattered showers in the region. there's a live doppler sweet and a few showers out to the east of santa rosa, towards st. helena, and as we move the maps to the south, few showers toward balinas. still have enough moisture to create heavy mist or drizzle, enough to wet the roadways. mostly cloudy skies out there. looking toward san francisco, the san francisco lights for your saturday evening, here is your forecast with weather headlines. still the chance of a few showers in the short-term. winter begins, winter sol

. >> mark tamayo is here with what we've seen over the last 24 hours. >> waves of rainfall, a steady band of rainfall heading into the west and east. they're adding up. especially in san francisco and oakland. over a half an inch of rain over the last 24 hours. look at ben lomond over the last half hour. this has been very productive especially. the radar over the past three hours you can see that moisture streaming from the south and the west. that is the moisture plume pushing into the region. here's the latest from the radar. up into parts of the north bay. there's a closer look at southern marin county. pushing out toward the east bay and parts of the north bay as well toward solano county closer to the fairfield area. and also moving the maps right around san francisco. san francisco downpours between about 8:00 and 10:00 this evening. extending over the east bay into parts of oakland and orinda. there's another system developing offshore. you can extend circulation. that will be the next storm. a stronger one. we'll have the timing of that coming up at 10:35. >>> a big tree bra

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mark tamayo is in the weather center and he is going on ating up the totals. -- adding up the totals.hours talking 9.2 inches. 8 inches guerneville. these are very, very impressive rain totals. some areas i imagine away from the rain gages a foot of rain. so here is the story. s the system slides through -- as the system slides through, from the big cities, these are impressive. got a lot of concrete. there is the system again. it is what we call a 10 on a scale of 10. showers coming down. we are seeing the radar. showing heavier rain than is occurring. we are seeing heavy rain. the oranges and reds aren't representing the heavy rain you might expect. but it is still raining out there. loving these all morning. the storm reports. trained observers who report what they have seen. trained by the national weather service. sometimes you don't know what you will get. a flood in hayward. wind gust of 68 miles per hour. east of fremont, wimbledon gust of 62 -- wind gusts of 62 miles per hour. rain up here, 4 inches of rain in occidental. flash flood in pacifica. the storm reports are money.

. >> meteorologist mark tamayo is in for rosemary today. tairs on top of the building, how she's locking out there. >> now you put the weatherman outside enjoying the sunshine. >> exactly. >> funny how that works. >> yeah, just perfect timing, a bit of a glare out here. still enjoying all the clear skies here in oakland. but some patches of dense fog out there as you can see over san francisco bay and the inland valleys out towards santa rosa, napa, livermore, antioch, fairfield, reports of dense fog. dense fog across the bay as well. that's going to be a factor in the forecast for today. the headline, it is completely dry. there is a weather system offshore. we'll take a look at the satellite. you can see it approaching the left portion of your screen. it will be dry for most of your weekend here on live storm tracker 2. after the dense fog this morning, skies becoming partly cloudy, even a few mostly sunny observations like we have now in oakland. the forecast highs for this afternoon mainly in the 50s, so we have some morning fog, skies b

our meteorologist mark tamayo joins us now. >> a break in the rainfall today. we have been talking about three storms. the first moved in monday. second one tuesday, wednesday. the third one moves in friday morning. has been a very active december 2014 for the bay area. look at the numbers. adding up. rainfall for this month, san francisco 10 inches. san jose 7.45. the numbers are adding up. we will add more rain to the totals over the next 24 hours. you can see right now the cold front approaching northern california, so far we have the clouds, santa rosa during the 3:00 p.m. hour, light rainfall. you can see the doppler sweeps. not picking up much over the north bay. spotty showers, heavy mist or drizzle but that will be changing. here is our forecast, midnight, rainfall on the increase between now and then. especially north of the golden gate bridge. look what happens for the morning commute, moderate to heavy rainfall across the bay area. friday morning, 6:00 p.m. it will be -- 6:00 a.m. it will be on the move. coming up the changes you can expect and the b