The 220 passengers and all crew members were unharmed, according to the spokesperson. As of 11 a.m., the passengers were currently being rescued and being returned to the nearby Pleasanton station. The train was not derailed in the incident.

Service may be impacted throughout the day as crews work to clear the tracks before they can make determinations on what to do with the impacted train.

National Weather Service predictions showed calm, chilly air Tuesday in the Bay Area. Highs in the mid-50s were consistent throughout, with San Jose, San Francisco and Oakland each expected to top out at 55 degrees. Overnight temperatures could drop to the mid-30s, however, accompanied by calm winds and a dry, rainless night.

Those showers should diminish by Thursday, however, as temperatures were forecast to drop to highs in the low 50s before slowly rising to the high 50s by Saturday, giving the Bay Area its first completely dry weekend of 2023.

National Weather Service 12-hour precipitation totals from 8 p.m. Sunday to 8 a.m. Monday morning showed healthy amounts of rainfall throughout the region, with most parts of the Bay Area exceeding one inch of rain. Totals include 1.18 inches in San Jose, 1.17 in San Francisco, 1.24 in Walnut Creek and 1.38 in Oakland.

A storm passed through the Bay Area overnight. The East and South Bay saw some of the heavier precip with this storm while the North Bay saw relatively lighter amounts. That storm is moving east with afternoon showers and t-storms likely to impact coastal areas today. pic.twitter.com/lqUFwM3ku3

— NWS Bay Area (@NWSBayArea) January 16, 2023

With saturated soils making it easier for trees to fall and clogged drains making way for flooding, there was no shortage of damage from the storms.

The overnight deluge inundated several properties in East Contra Costa County.

The hardest rain appeared to fall in the pre-dawn hours of Monday morning – causing 3-foot-deep flood waters to surround the house of Ryan Orosco, 35, along Bixler Road near Brentwood. His house is raised, meaning that none of the water managed to get inside.

Shortly after daybreak, he carried his wife and son out of their house and to dry land through bone-chilling cold water.

“If you were to stand on our porch, it looks like a river running through it,” Orosco said.

Next door, his parents’ property fared worse. About three or four inches of water seeped inside, forcing them to leave their house at about 5 a.m. and spend the rest of their night in their car across the street on dry land.

“It’s really stressful to deal with it,” Orosco said. “It just baffles me how much water came down.”

“I’m looking forward to it being over,” he added, of the recent string of atmospheric rivers to hit the state. “I’m looking forward to going out and enjoying the sunshine when it comes out.”

Down the street, other properties were affected as well.

While Mark Beard’s house escaped the deluge unscathed, his nearby workshop and his in-law unit – where his 19-year-old son lives – became flooded with six inches to a foot of water Monday morning.

Beard said it was the third time since late December that his property has flooded, forcing his son to live in a camper trailer. He blamed much of the issue on a nearby irrigation ditch overflowing onto his property.

“The ditches on our street are not big enough to contain this water,” Beard said. “The pipes that go across the road are not big enough to flow the water coming in.”

On Monday, Beard voiced fatigue at the drumbeat of storms over the last three weeks.

“It’s horrible – this is going to be our third time of cleaning everything out,” said Beard, adding that he’ll need to tear out carpet and walling from the in-law unit. “We’ve already done a bunch of cleanup and now we’re doing it again.”

In Berkeley, a Monday morning mudslide led to a “severe” warning from the police department, forcing evacuations near Middlefield Road.

“The spiral between Wildcat Canyon and Middlefield, Middlefield north of the Crossways, and Wildcat Canyon between Sunset and Park Hills Rd are all closed due to mudslide in the area,”  the alert read. “Several residents have already been evacuated. Other residents in the area should be prepared to evacuate if notified.”

The Palo Alto Police Department issued an advisory at 7:57 a.m. that all lanes of El Camino Real were closed in both directions at the University Avenue underpass due to overnight flooding. There was no estimation for reopening given.

A downed tree on Highway 13 in Oakland caused an early morning shutdown from Broadway Terrace to the junction of Highway 61 in Berkeley, according to CalTrans.

CalTrans says two lanes of Highway 101 were closed Monday at the junction with Highway 84 in Redwood City after massive potholes caused damage to tires during the morning commute hours.

Meanwhile, San Francisco International Airport surpassed its yearly rain average just four months into the water year, according to the NWS. SFO hit 20 inches of rain during overnight, beating out the 19.64 inch yearly average with eight months to spare. The water year runs from Oct. 1 to Sept. 30.

The remainder of the week, with exception to Wednesday night, looks to be a welcome break from the storms for the Bay Area. Monday could see between one-tenth and one-quarter of an inch of rain in San Jose and less than one-tenth in San Francisco and Oakland.

State climate experts voiced relief at the line of atmospheric rivers appearing to come to an end. A ridge of high pressure is expected to cut off the flow of moisture to the state, meaning that California should expect largely dry weather through the end of January, save for a minor storm rolling through the state on Wednesday.

“We’re finally getting through the parade of storms,” said Mike Anderson, state climatologist.

As the clouds decrease in the evening Monday, temperatures were expected to drop to a low of 37 degrees in San Jose, and the low 40s in the East Bay and Peninsula. Tuesday was predicted to be clear with a high of 55 degrees throughout the region.

Wednesday could see light showers, with totals expected around one-quarter of an inch in Bay Area urban centers.

This is a developing story, check back for updates.

Deputies responded to reports of a shooting in the area of Miramontes Point Road and Oleander Way at 5:58 p.m. Wednesday, according to a news release from the San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office.

Authorities did not say if anyone had been struck or injured in the shooting. The suspect fled the scene before authorities arrived, according to the news release.

The 23-year old suspect was arrested Thursday in Gilroy. Detectives executed a search warrant at a nearby home — authorities did not say what led them to the home, or who lived there — and found a “ghost gun,” a personally manufactured weapon that did not bear a serial number. The suspect was arrested on suspicion of assault with a firearm, child endangerment, criminal threats and reckless discharge of a firearm.

The sheriff’s office said in the release that detectives believe the shooting was an isolated incident and there is no public safety concern. Authorities did not specify a reason for the child endangerment booking charge.

Officers made a traffic stop in the area of Fordham Street and Purdue Avenue just after 11 p.m. Thursday, the East Palo Alto Police Department said in a news release. The vehicle’s driver fled on foot; the officers chased him to the 2700 block of Fordham.

As police struggled to get the suspect in custody, the suspect fired a single shot from a fully automatic “ghost gun” containing a high-capacity magazine, authorities said. The shot struck an officer — a five-year veteran of the department — who suffered injuries to a lower extremity.

“We are grateful that our officer was not more seriously injured, and that the suspect and firearm are in custody,” East Palo Alto Interim Police Chief Jeff Liu said in the release. “This is a stark reminder of the danger police officers face, and the ongoing dangers of gun violence. We must never forget the risk our police officers take every time they leave their families to serve our community.”

As stormy skies returned Friday, California officials said that the relentless rains that have eased years of punishing drought have come at a terrible cost, already ranking among the Golden State’s deadliest natural disasters — with more rain on the way.

“We’ve now experienced multiple large and damaging storm systems and there are more on the way,” California Office of Emergency Services Director Nancy Ward said in a Friday news briefing. “We’ve experienced destructive flooding of homes and infrastructure, levee breaches and overtopping, mudslides hurricane force winds in many of our communities, and even had a tornado touch down in Northern California. But let me emphasize, we are not out of the woods yet. The threat to communities remains, and waters will continue to rise even after these storms have passed.”

David Lawrence, a meteorologist and emergency response specialist with the National Weather Service Western Region Headquarters, added that over the last 18 days, the state has seen a statewide average of just over 9 inches of rainfall.

“That is a remarkable number,” Lawrence said. “Some locations have seen their average annual rainfall already occur in just the last 18 days.”

Lawrence said that while the weather service did not expect Friday’s downpours “to be overly significant,” another set of storms arriving Saturday “will bring widespread heavy rainfall in some locations, very heavy mountain snowfall as well, in addition to gusty winds up to 50 to 60 mph.”

“Not only could that rain produce additional flooding — and certainly we’ll see some major impacts to travel in the mountains — but those winds could also blow over trees and bring additional power outages,” Lawrence said. “We do see an additional one or two storm systems for early next week before hopefully we do finally get at least a very brief break in the weather toward the latter portions of next week.”

Authorities ticked off the statewide toll to date from the remarkable deluges since Christmas that have fallen on a state that had been parched after a series of dry winters.

• 6,000 Californians under evacuation order
• More than 20,000 still without electric power
• More than 60 major road closures, at least 32 of which are ongoing
• Seven waterways still under watch for major flooding
• Emergency declarations in 41 of California’s 58 counties
• 19 confirmed deaths — a figure that would rise to 20 if a 5-year-old boy missing since being swept away by floodwaters Monday in the San Luis Obispo County town of San Miguel isn’t found alive.

“These storms are amongst the most deadly natural disasters in the modern history of our state,” Ward said.

Authorities urged people to avoid travel over the three-day Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend, heed precautions and not drive over flooded roadways.

Ward said her office is coordinating with authorities in Monterey, Santa Cruz and Merced counties “whose regions we expect to continue to be vulnerable to these next two or three storm systems, and to include the possibility of a complete cutoff of the Monterey Peninsula.

Monterey County communications coordinator Maia Carroll said Friday the Salinas River already flooded rural roads farm fields near Chualar, causing temporary closures Thursday.

But it will remain a threat through the weekend to potentially flood and close access to Highway 68 between Salinas and Monterey and other major roadways, possibly even Highway 1. If all those roadways have to be closed, the Monterey Peninsula, home to some 54,000 people in Monterey, Pacific Grove, Carmel and Pebble Beach, could be isolated, perhaps for days. Carroll said ambulances and other emergency equipment have been positioned on both sides of areas where roads might have to close just in case.

“It depends on Mother Nature when we can exhale,” Carroll said.

Cindy Messer, lead deputy director at the California Department of Water Resources, said the Salinas is one of seven rivers and waterways under flood watch around the state. Others include the Sacramento River at Ord Ferry, the Navarro River at Navarro in Mendocino County, the Russian River in Guerneville, Bear Creek at McKee Road in Merced, and the San Joaquin River.

The silver lining, Messer said, is the relentless downpours have eased the state’s withering drought. Overall, statewide reservoir levels remain at about 75% of their average for this time of year, she said. That’s because the largest reservoirs were so low they take a lot of water to fill.

Lake Oroville was at about 47% of its full capacity, Shasta Lake at about 42% of its capacity, Folsom Lake at 42% of its capacity and lastly San Luis reservoir at 40% of its capacity.

“We’ve had an amazing amount of rainfall,” she said.

Six-hour rain totals from the National Weather Service as of noon Friday showed just under half of an inch had fallen in San Francisco and San Mateo between 6 a.m. and 12 p.m. Oakland received one-quarter of an inch, and Walnut Creek had one-third. A one and one-half inch downpour occurred over the Santa Cruz Mountains while San Jose was virtually dry with just one-tenth of an inch.

Here are the past 6 hour precip totals for this morning #CAwx pic.twitter.com/4oEfsWfY2b

— NWS Bay Area (@NWSBayArea) January 13, 2023

The weather service projected between a quarter and one-half of an inch of new rain in San Jose, San Francisco and Oakland on Friday night. On the coast in places such as Half Moon Bay and Pacifica, forecasts showed half of an inch of rain paired with wind gusts reaching 30 mph. Projections were lower in the East Bay, with Livermore and Walnut Creek expected to reach no more than one-quarter inch of rain Friday night.

Weather service meteorologist Eleanor Dhuyvetter said Saturday is a bigger concern, but those storms aren’t expected to be among the strongest the Bay Area has seen in the new year.

Even so, “with things just so saturated right now, it really doesn’t take much for some of the flooding issues, and that’s kind of the impacts we’re seeing.”

Saturday forecasts called for wind gusts up to 30 miles per hour and an inch of rainfall in downtown San Jose. In Oakland, rain totals could be as high as one inch with 24 mph winds, and San Francisco could see three-quarters of an inch with 21 mph gusts.

Sunday could be even more moderate, with no more than one-quarter of an inch expected in urban centers. But the rain was predicted to linger, with forecasts showing wet conditions lasting into Thursday.

Power outages, many caused by falling trees, were still afflicting thousands of customers in Santa Clara and Santa Cruz counties. Tracking site poweroutage.us Friday afternoon showed 3,665 out in Santa Cruz County and 1,589 in Santa Clara County.

Caltrans closed highway 92 in both directions from highway 35 to Pilarcitos Creek Road Thursday after a massive sinkhole opened up. As of Friday, there was no estimated time of reopening for the key roadway.

On Friday night, Santa Clara County staff issued new evacuation warnings to watershed areas near the Uvas Reservoir, Pacheco Pass River Basin and intersection of Highway 101 and Bolsa Road “due to the weather conditions and potential risks of flooding to the general public and property.”

Those areas under evacuation warning risk include Pacheco Pass River Basin for those living in the areas of:

• El Toro Road south of Highway 152 to Bloomfield Avenue
• Lovers Lane between Shore Road and Highway 152

Watershed Areas of the Uvas Reservoir including those living:

• South of Uvas Reservoir including Thousand Trails RV Park and Uvas Pines RV Park
• South of Sycamore Drive and Watsonville Road
• Homes south of Lions Peak
• South of Day Road and Geri Lane
• Watsonville and Highway 152

Highway 101 and Bolsa Road:

• South of Hwy 152, East of Highway 101
• South of Pacheco Pass (Highway 152) and east of Highway 101
• South of Luchessa Avenue and east of Thomas Road
• East of Santa Teresa Boulevard to Castro Valley Road
• North of Castro Valley Road to Luchessa Avenue
• North of Highway 25 between Highway 101 & Bloomfield Road
• West of Bloomfield Avenue between Highway 25 and Pacheco Pass (Highway 152)
• East of Highway 101 to Pacheco Pass (Highway 152)

Residents and visitors “should gather their household members, pets, personal items, important documents, prescription medication, change of clothes, non-perishable foods, water, extra batteries, flashlights, and phone chargers” and “prepare to evacuate to a safe location,” staff said in a statement.

Along the Central Coast, the weather service issued high surf warnings and a coastal flood advisory, citing a combination of high tide cycles, strong winds and heavy rain runoff.

In the Sierra Nevada Mountains, the weather service issued a winter storm warning set to last from 4 a.m. Saturday to 10 a.m. Tuesday, advising travel could be “very difficult to impossible,” and to expect one to two feet of snow at the Tahoe Basin and three to five feet above elevations of 7,000 feet. By Friday afternoon, chain control checkpoints were in place on Interstate 80 and Highway 50.

Staff writer Rick Hurd and George Kelly contributed.

Authorities announced Thursday that Andrea Flores, 3, was safely returned home after she was found Jan. 7 in Mexico. The sheriff’s office said on Jan. 1 that the toddler was a victim of a possible parental abduction and was last seen in Millbrae.

*UPDATE ON MILLBRAE PARENTAL ABDUCTION*

1/2 Missing toddler Andrea Flores has been safely recovered and reunited with her family. Thanks to our partnership with the FBI and Mexican authorities, Andrea was located in Mexico on Saturday, January 7, 2023.

— San Mateo County S.O (@SMCSheriff) January 12, 2023

No additional details were given. It’s unknown if any arrests were made.

The famous local author wrote in his 1952 epic East of Eden that “sometimes it raged and boiled, bank full, and then it was a destroyer.”

“I think the public forgets,” Nieto said at a news briefing Thursday afternoon, “how dangerous the Salinas River can be.”

In the Bay Area, rain was expected overnight Thursday, but no more than one-tenth of an inch was expected in urban areas. Light rains are forecast to return Friday for the Monterey and San Francisco bay areas, delivering half and inch of rain to San Jose, San Francisco and Oakland, with up to an inch falling Saturday, and delivering snow in the Sierra Nevada mountains.

But in Monterey County, authorities and weather forecasters are concerned that a wave of water from storms earlier in the week is making its way down the Salinas River and up the Salinas Valley.

The Monterey County Sheriff’s Office ordered evacuations for low-lying areas along the river in preparation of floods that could potentially close overland routes into the area, isolating residents and businesses.

Officials prepared for Highway 68, River Road, Reservation Road, Blanco Road, multiple secondary roads, and even Highway 1 to potentially close.

“There is a high probability that the Salinas River will flood all access points into the Monterey Peninsula at some point on Thursday… lasting through Sunday,” said a statement from Monterey County Supervisor Wendy Root Askew. “This means that anyone who is on the peninsula when flooding occurs will not be able to leave. Conversely, anyone who is not on the peninsula will not be able to enter.”

Monterey County last saw the Salinas River flood like that in 1995. In March of that year, river gauges at Spreckels, the community a few miles south of Salinas where the East of Eden movie was filmed in 1955, recorded a record level of 30.29 feet, said National Weather Service meteorologist Cindy Palmer.

Flood stage at Spreckels is 23 feet, and the river was projected to reach that level late Thursday night and crest Friday morning at 24.4 feet. That’s between its significant flood stage at 24 feet and moderate flood stage at 26 feet, Palmer said. Anything over 28 feet would be considered major flooding, she said.

But Monterey County officials stressed that a lot of factors need to be considered. Askew said at a news conference Thursday that high tides will play a role as the river flows down the watershed. And flooded areas along the route could spread out over farm fields and lessen the amount of water going down the river channel.

“We are basing this information on the best information we have at the time, and it changes daily and sometimes hourly because mother nature is fickle,” added Nieto.

By Thursday afternoon in Monterey County, there already were reports of flooding upriver in Chualar. Nieto said that the disaster will unfold sequentially, as the mass of river water makes its way downstream.

“This will not occur all at the same time,” Nieto said. “This is a slow moving event. The river crests at different times.”

Many residents along the river, especially those with children, already have heeded the evacuation order and left, said Danielle Parker, who lives in the Spreckels community. She and her husband moved their valuables to a friend’s place on higher ground in Salinas. But they and their Great Dane Harileigh weren’t leaving their Spreckels home, where the living quarters are raised above ground level to withstand flooding, with only the garage below exposed.

“We’re hunkering down,” said Parker, 35, whose home is about a mile from the river. “Everyone’s just kind of hanging out watching each others’ stuff for the friends and neighbors who left town.”

The die-hards staying put were planning a party at a community park in the afternoon, Parker said.

“Everyone’s bringing food and drinks, we’ll have music playing,” Parker said. “If it does flood as bad as it might, we’ll have some socialization before we’re all stuck in our houses.”

The nearby Monterey Zoo, and a bed and breakfast and a horse boarding stable were continuing their usual operations. Janine Garcia at the zoo said that “the potential for actually cresting to the point of impacting us is very unlikely — maybe the roads into or out of this area, but the zoo itself will not be impacted.”

Connections Boarding Stable owner Sheryl Fudge said that “if they close the access, we’re all prepared — we have plenty of food on hand, so we should be fine.”

The NWS predicted at least a chance of rain each day and night through Jan. 18, though heavy wind gusts seen in recent days may not materialize. Residents should still be wary, as heavily saturated soils could still leave a window of opportunity for strong gusts to bring trees down and cause damage.

The Bay Area was still assessing and cleaning up severe weather-related damage Thursday from earlier storms. A new sinkhole that opened around 3 a.m. Thursday forced the closure of Highway 92 in both directions from upper Highway 35 to Pilarcitos Creek Road.

At Monterey Bay Kayaks in Monterey, Adam Helm said it’s the slow season and they weren’t too worried about the drop in business. He said employees who work at the Monterey site could work at another location up the coast if road access is cut off.

“For what we’ve been through over the past few years with COVID, fires, this is pretty minimal,” Helm said.

The glitch affected a system known as NOTAM — standing for Notice to Air Missions — which pilots, air dispatchers and others are required to consult before a takeoff. The system provides alerts about weather, ground conditions and other information that could affect a flight.

The cause of the outage will be investigated by the federal Department of Transportation, President Joe Biden said on Wednesday morning. Air travel was halted for hours before resuming just after 6 a.m. Pacific time.

In the Bay Area, airport spokespersons reported normal or minimal amounts of cancelations in their early-morning operations, but the West Coast avoided much of the travel-related havoc, due to the disruption happening before most of the morning’s takeoffs were scheduled.

Norman Y. Mineta San Jose International Airport spokesperson Keonnis Taylor said only one flight was delayed as of 9:43 a.m. Wednesday due to the FAA’s issues.

“Due to the early time, most of our flights had not yet begun operating,” Taylor said via email. “We’ve also been fortunate with the weather. We have maintained normal operations, and have provided support for several diverted aircraft unable to land at nearby airports.”

On Wednesday morning, the Silicon Valley Business Journal reported as many as six Southwest Airlines flights into and out of SJC were canceled and 81 were delayed in the wake of the FAA outage. The new delays harken back to late December, when thousands of flights were canceled during the holiday season, leaving travelers stranded as they searched for new flights.

When asked to confirm Wednesday’s report, the airline told Bay Area News Group it’s “not able to provide market specific information as it’s been changing throughout the day.”

Taylor later clarified that “since the day has progressed, additional operations have been impacted … Compared to a typical day, my team indicates that aside from the delays being reported by Southwest Airlines, operations are normal.”

San Francisco International Airport spokesperson Doug Yakel told the Bay Area News Group that the 20 flight cancellations Wednesday morning were a normal amount. He added there were 83 flight delays as of 7:30 a.m., comprising of about 9% of all SFO flights.

Yakel said there was “no way” to break down the reasons why flights were delayed or cancelled.

“Speaking generally, we are seeing minimal cancellations but some residual delays on the schedule that are more than typical, especially among arriving flights through this afternoon.” Skantz said via email.  “I did check in with our operations team and they report no unusually long lines or passenger crowding at this time.”

Nevertheless, some punches were coming Tuesday, too.

Powerful winds whipped the Bay Area overnight, exceeding 70 mph overnight in Los Gatos and hitting 69 mph at San Francisco International Airport. The National Weather Service also recorded hail in Monterey County early Tuesday amid forecast for the possibility of funnel clouds and/or tornadoes throughout the day.

White-out conditions whipped the Sierra Nevada amid a blizzard at its summit.

Yet, the full force of the latest atmospheric storm to hit the region was considerably less than 24 hours earlier, according to the weather service.

“Definitely the strongest winds that we’ll have were with that line of thunderstorms overnight,” NWS meteorologist Dalton Behringer said. “So you may still see some gusty winds with scattered thunderstorms through the day today but nothing widespread like we saw (earlier Tuesday) morning.”

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San Francisco flash flood warning

The weather service issued a flash flood warning for San Francisco that will be in effect until 3:30 p.m. Tuesday. Residents in the area were urged to take shelter and not travel.

Pea-sized hail fell in downtown San Francisco, and there were flashes of lightning to go along with thunder claps.

Widespread flooding, mudslides, rockslides, and the rapid rising of creeks, streams and rivers were expected, according to the weather service.

— Updated, 12:45 p.m.

Monterey County evacuation warning

The Spreckels community in Monterey County received an evacuation warning from the Monterey County Sheriff’s Office. The neighborhood runs approximately from the intersection of Highway 68 and Spreckels Boulevard. Residents there were told they must be prepared to leave with any items they can gather in case the warning is followed by an order.

The Carmel River Area was evacuated Monday.

— Updated, 12:35 p.m.

Road closures throughout Santa Clara County

More than a dozen roads in Santa Clara County remained closed Tuesday because of the destruction the storms left behind. Traffic signals at two major intersections on the San Tomas Expressway also were not working.

Some of the closed roads led to highways, and there was no estimate for when they would be open.

For the full list of the closures and the intersections without functioning traffic signals, click here.

— Updated, 11:45 a.m.

Largest storm response in Pacific Gas & Electric history

The brief spells without rain, and calmer winds may help Pacific Gas & Electric workers make progress on more than 190,000 of their customers who are without power in California. Of those, 75,808 were in the Bay Area.

Utility spokeswoman Tamar Sarkissian said PG&E had 5,000 workers in the field to deal with the storms, the largest storm response in its history. They came from as far north as Canada and as far east as Wisconsin.

That total number of Bay Area customers without power late Tuesday morning was down about 17,000 from the Bay Area’s high mark early Tuesday when slightly more than 92,000 customers were affected.

In the South Bay, 46,636 customers were without power. In the Peninsula, 15,520 were still awaiting a restoration. The North Bay had 6,198 customers without power; San Francisco had 3,909 and the East Bay had 3,545.

— Updated, 11:30 a.m.

Two South Bay high schools Tuesday

The power outages dotting the Bay Area caused Los Gatos and Saratoga high schools to be closed Tuesday, according to a statement from the Saratoga Union High School District.

School district officials said they did not have an estimated time when power would be restored and that the schools will not re-open until it is. The decision on whether school will be held Wednesday has not been determined.

— Updated, 9:45 a.m.

More than 90,000 Bay Area residents, customers without power

Pacific Gas & Electric workers continued to repair power outages early Tuesday, as 93,742 Bay Area residents and businesses were without it.

South Bay customers were suffering the most. PG&E said 52,911 customers in that area of the Bay had no power.

Also, 19,053 customers in the Peninsula; 8,221 in the East Bay; 7,414 in the North Bay; and 6,143 in San Francisco all needed to be restored.

— Updated, 9:15 a.m.

Rain, rain (won’t) go away

Meteorologist Jan Null, who has monitored the weather in the Bay Area for four decades, said the storms of the past two weeks have brought San Francisco its third-wettest 15-day period since 1849, when NWS records were first kept.

According to Null, 12.37 inches of rain fell from Dec. 26, 2021 to Jan. 9, 2023. That total is still more 5 inches shy of the all-time mark, set when 19.77 inches fell from Jan. 5-19, 1862, Null said. In 1866, 13.54 inches fell from Dec. 15-29.

— Updated 8:50 a.m.

Large power outages persisting

New power outages continued to pop up throughout the region, and it was unclear how much a dent PG&E could put into the 92,000 outages that affected residents and businesses early Tuesday.

One big outage happened in Union City and ran from Coyote Hills Regional Park north past Whipple Road to the Alameda Creek. That outage was affecting 5,059 customers.

Another outage on the utility’s map encompassed the San Jose State main campus and affected 2,829 customers.

“There are some scattered power outages on campus at this time,” SJSU spokeswoman Robin McElhatton said. “We are working on setting up a generator. The campus remains open and operational.”

— Updated 8:25 a.m.

The rain eased a bit overnight

The 24-hour rainfall totals released by the weather service at 7 a.m. showed the rainfall overnight was considerable less intense than the previous 24 hours.

The heaviest rainfall was in Orinda, where  2 1/2 inches fell. But areas that were deluged Monday night into Tuesday got some relief. Loma Prieta received about a half-inch, and Mount Umunhum and Ben Lomond were just under 1½ inches. Those areas in Santa Cruz County had received more than 3 inches of rain from Monday night into Tuesday, the leading figures in the region.

About a half-inch fell at San Francisco International Airport. Oakland International Airport received about four-tenths of an inch, as did San Jose.

— Updated 7:20 a.m.

Winter storm warning continues in the Sierra Nevada

A winter storm warming in the Sierra Nevada will remain in effect until 4 a.m. Wednesday, and heavy bands of snow are expected through at least 2 p.m. Tuesday. The weather service was reporting white-out conditions at the summit. Travel was expected to be very difficult to impossible, and authorities encouraged people to stay away.

— Updated 7 a.m.

Some flood warnings have expired

Several NWS flood warnings expired late Monday and early Tuesday, including in parts of the Santa Cruz coast, Santa Cruz Mountains and southern sections of Santa Clara County. The advisories remain in effect for parts of the Big Sur River and Salinas River.“A couple of rivers mostly south of the Bay Area were going to be getting a little more rain,” Behringer said. “Overall [rain totals] will be going down. Things will be subsiding today.”

— Updated 7 a.m.

Forecast for airport travel

Airports were optimistic that the weather would have only minimal impact on traveling.

The San Francisco International Airport was listing four cancellations into, out of, or within the United States early Tuesday, and another 36 had been delayed. There was only one cancellation and 14 delays at Oakland International Airport, and there were no cancellations at Mineta San Jose Airport. San Jose had 21 delays.

— Updated 6:45 a.m.

Trouble on the roads

Roadways continued to be saturated, and flooding problems popped up throughout freeways and major thoroughfares in the Bay Area.

Caltrans shut down Interstate 280 to Highway 87 because of flooding, according to the California Highway Patrol. They did not say when it would be re-opened.

Trees and power lines fell in Walnut Creek, causing authorities to close eastbound Ygnacio Valley Road between Homestead Road and San Carlos Drive, a stretch of about two miles. The bypass road connects central and east Contra Costa County and also leads to John Muir Medical Center.

— Updated 6:30 a.m.