A potent Pacific storm front, carrying with it a Cat. 1 atmospheric river, rolled into the North Bay Saturday morning, triggering a variety of alerts and warnings including a flash flood watch for Monterey County.
SAN FRANCISCO -- A potent Pacific storm front, carrying with it a Cat. 1 atmospheric river, rolled into the North Bay Saturday morning, triggering a variety of alerts and warnings from the National Weather Service including a flash flood watch for Monterey County.
"Rain looks to become widespread around the SF Bay Area by around sunrise, with heaviest rain and strongest winds just ahead of and with the cold frontal passage," weather service forecasters said."Timing for that looks to be around mid-morning in the Santa Rosa area, late morning for San Francisco and mid-afternoon around Monterey Bay."
"Forecast grids for just the 12-hour period now call for close to 7 inches of rain wettest portions of the Santa Lucia range," the weather service said."For the burn scars of the Dolan, River and Colorado Fires especially, raises significant concern over the possibility of localized flood or debris flows."Researchers at Scripps Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes predicted the incoming storm front will be a Cat.
"An additional concern will be more widespread minor urban and small stream flooding as soils are increasing becoming saturated," the weather service said of the storm's impact in the Bay Area.Meanwhile in the Sierra, a winter storm warning extends all the way to 4 a.m. Monday. More than 4 feet of new snow was forecasted for Donner Summit and Kirkwood with just about 3 feet expected at Truckee.
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