Despite a few consecutive weeks of wild weather, mother nature isn't quite done with the Bay Area as yet another wind and rain storm barreled to landfall in time for the morning commute Tuesday.
The Bay Area was placed under a wind advisory until 8 p.m. Tuesday as gusts as high as 45 miles per hour were expected to grace the region. On the Marin coastline, winds could reach upwards of 50 mph. Those winds were predicted to occur sometime after 8 a.m., according to the National Weather Service, lasting into the late afternoon.
While forecasts predicted rain totals near one-half of an inch for San Jose and Walnut Creek, and three-quarters of an inch in San Francisco and Oakland, morning totals signaled a slow start for precipitation.
As of the NWS 24-hour totals at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, San Jose hadn't recorded any measurable rainfall yet, and San Francisco, Oakland and Walnut Creek were each below one-tenth of an inch. The most plentiful measures of rainfall were in the North Bay, where Petaluma received about four-tenths of an inch and Mill Valley was at two-tenths. The storm was expected to travel from north to south by the afternoon.
"This system is still going to be a pretty strong frontal band but we're not digging deep from the sub-tropical moistures like we've would from (atmospheric rivers) that we've seen in previous months," NWS meteorologist Brayden Murdock said. "It's still going to be windy, it's still going to be fairly rainy at times especially as this main rain band comes through but that starts to fade out as we go into the evening and into the night."
As Bay Area residents could expect following recent storms, highly saturated soils from historic amounts of rainfall left trees more susceptible to falling amid the high wind gusts. Not only did that create a risk to people, but power outages started to occur throughout the region as trees and other debris collide with power lines as the storm began storm Tuesday morning.
As of 10 a.m. Tuesday, the Pacific Gas and Electric Company reported as many as 5,186 power outages across the Bay Area. 2,565 were reported in the South Bay while 1,974 were in the East Bay. While thousands of PG&E customers were left in the dark, the NWS said impacts shouldn't be as severe as they were earlier in the month.
"This isn't going to be as really high impact (as recent storms)," Murdock said. "We're still going to see some winds from it, still going to see individual storms, but to see the really strong winds like we saw last week, it just isn't in the cards for this one."
There could be a lull, as the NWS describes it, in the evening as the widespread precipitation separates into scattered showers and the strongest of the winds should dissipate by sunset, according to Murdock.Those showers were predicted by the agency to re-form into higher-coverage storms for more rain Wednesday morning, potentially producing scattered thunderstorms in some parts of the region.
"It's not going to be widespread, there's going to be a few (thunderstorms) out there though," Murdock said. "A lot of those chances will start off over the ocean, that makes them easier to track and if they do go on land we'll have plenty of extra warning for them."
San Jose, San Francisco, Oakland and Walnut Creek were each forecast for about another half of an inch of rain Wednesday, though those storms were expected to be absent of the strong wind gusts forecast for Tuesday.
This is a developing story. Check back for updates.
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