Sunny skies on Saturday morning gave Bay Area residents a break from the two days of heavy rains that pounded the region, breaking daily rainfall records in cities from Santa Rosa to San Jose.
“We still are going to have rain these next few days, but it’s nothing like what we went through,” said meteorologist Dylan Flynn, with the National Weather Service’s Monterey office.
Downtown Santa Rosa broke a century-plus record for having the most amount of rain within a 72-hour period — 12,7 inches. The previous record was 9.72 inches.
“We broke it by a healthy margin,” Flynn said. “We’ve never seen that much of rain over three days since we started recording.”
Downtown San Francisco registered 2.97 inches of rain Friday, a total that broke the single-day record of 1.12 inches set more than 150 years ago.
In the South Bay, San Jose recorded 0.72 inches of rain, breaking a daily record set in 1964 by 0.10 inches.
Despite the break in weather, the storm’s aftermath is causing disruptions in traffic and flood advisories.
This morning a fallen tree on Foothill Expressway in Los Altos slowed down traffic in both directions at the Loyola Bridge. In San Mateo, as section of Maple Street between Madison Avenue and Barneson Avenue is also closed to traffic due to a fallen tree. San Mateo police is asking drivers to avoid the area and use alternate routes. The time estimate for reopening is 3 pm.
In Orinda last night, a fallen tree blocked the roadway on Moraga Way and Glorietta Boulevard. Locals were told to use caution while driving and seek alternative routes while the city’s public works cleared the tree.
Excessive rainfall by the storm could cause flooding in urban areas and small stream in the East Bay. The National Weather Service issued moderate flood advisories for Alameda and Contra Costa that went into effect this morning afternoon and are effective until 1:45 p.m. today. Sonoma County also has a moderate flood advisory until 3:15 p.m. this afternoon.
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