SF News Sunday Links: SF Entrepreneur Demands Retraction Over Sex Crime Allegations The Bay Area is getting hit with several days of solid rain; Assemblymember Diane Papan is working to close a loophole that allows e-bikes to operate at excessive speeds; and a social-climbing local entrepreneur has been accused of sex crimes.
SF News After Lick Observatory Gets Roof Piece Ripped Off by Extreme Winds, Scientists Race to Save 137-Year-Old Telescope The historically significant, 57-foot-long Great Refractor telescope near San Jose is in serious danger, after 110 mile-per-hour winds ripped a steel crescent off the Lick Observatory’s roof, and more storms are on the way.
SF News Tonight's Storm May Qualify as Bomb Cyclone, With Winds Topping 60mph Meteorologists and their weather models have not come to any agreement about whether Tuesday's incoming storm will meet the criteria of a "bomb cyclone," but suffice it to say it will be really windy and wet.
SF News Other Boaters In Distress Describe Dramatic Sudden Storm That Left Eight Dead In Tahoe While Lake Tahoe had experienced some high winds and choppy waters on Friday, by Saturday morning, more normal-seeming, springlike weather had taken hold, giving boaters a false sense of calm before a sudden storm rolled through.
SF News Study: Atmospheric Rivers Getting Stronger, More Frequent It's not your imagination. You're hearing the term "atmospheric river," which was not a thing on weather reports a couple decades ago, much more often each year in part because these weather events are happening more often.
SF News After February Storms, California State Officials Double Water Allocation for Most Municipalities The CA Department of Water Resources increased its forecasted allocation to 30% of requested supplies for those south of the Delta (the majority of water users) up from a 15% allocation update announced last month.
SF News Storms Cause Highway 84 in Alameda County to Just Crack Open and Fall Into Creek There’s only one lane open on State Route 84 a.k.a. Niles Canyon Road west of Sunol, because part of the other lane has simply broken off and fallen into Alameda Creek.
SF News Six People and a Dozen Dogs and Puppies Required Water Rescue From Inundated River Island In San Jose A group of people and their dogs who were apparently camped on an island in the Guadalupe River in San Jose required an emergency rescue on Sunday as the river waters rose.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Thousands Still Without Power In Bay Area There are many downed trees still being cleaned up in SF and around the Bay; as of Monday a.m. 4,800 PG&E customers in SF were without power, and many thousands more in the North and South Bay; and one person was killed in Santa Cruz County when a tree fell on their home.
SF News Bay Area Braces For Another Serious Rainstorm One local meteorologist is saying we are going to get "slammed" by the incoming storm on Wednesday morning, so don't let this balmy weather fool you. It is still very much winter.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Gigantic Waves Rollick Bay Area Coast, Get Recorded in Stunning Videos Thursday’s high tidal surges caused evacuations in Marin County, inundated Santa Cruz and Capitola with floods, and nearly cost the life of a daredevil surfer in Pacifica, while eyewitnesses caught much of this on video.
SF News Rain and Floods Snarl Travel In SF and Bay Area, Oakland Zoo Closed for the Day Wednesday’s continued rainstorms caused traffic jams and commute messes across the Bay Area, while the Oakland Zoo closed up shop in heavy rains, and more than 200 flights have been delayed today at SFO.
SF News 'Tis the Season: Atmospheric River-Fueled Storms Returning to the Bay Area Get ready for another wet holiday season — heavy winter storms are forecast to hit SF for the rest of December.
SF News The Season's First Bomb Cyclone Hits the West Coast Next Week — But Won't Likely Impact SF Today's clear and sunny weather in San Francisco, with — despite some lingering smoke in the air — some balmy afternoon highs close to 70 in some parts of town, will be repeated by mid-week next week, in even warmer fashion. But first, a storm's a-comin'.
SF News Burning Man Doused by Rare Desert Rains, Turning Festival Into Muddy Nightmare for 70,000+ Festival-Goers Trapped in Playa Organizers shut down the festival's entrance gate and airport on Friday night amid stormy weather, effectively isolating everyone within the playa, who they urged to "shelter in place" and ration resources.
SF News From 'Beach Bummers' to 'Poo-cifica,' California Coast Struggles with High Levels of Sewage After Winter Storms A new report shows how the winter's storms caused sewage overflows that have polluted the state's beaches, with five of its dirtiest beaches located in San Mateo County.
SF News Supes Take Up New Legislation Over High-Rise Windows Breaking, Windows May Have Been From Same Manufacturer In the aftermath of this winter’s slew of storms breaking high-rise windows and blowing panels off buildings, the SF Board of Supervisors is learning that many of the broken windows may be from the same manufacturer.
SF News Heavy Rains Have NorCal Vineyards Hoping For a Bumper Crop This Year While this year’s epic rainstorms have wiped out crops and damaged property for some farmers, Northern California grape growers are optimistic the wet weather will yield a banner year for them after several years of drought conditions.
SF News Three Months of Storms Have Wreaked Havoc On Bay Area Farmers’ Markets and Vendors The double-whammy of flooded crops and low attendance has farmers' markets and their vendors struggling, in a phenomenon that may not be over, even though it’s April.
SF News Yet More High-Rise Windows Crack as Salesforce East Has Second Broken Window Incident In a Week Another storm has brought another set of broken windows to 350 Mission Street, the high-rise otherwise known as Salesforce East, in a story that’s becoming frighteningly common this month.
SF News Tuesday's Storm Being Called 'Once In a Lifetime' and 'Extremely Unusual' By Meteorologists Yes, Tuesday's bizarre, hurricane-like windstorm took everyone, include those whose job it is to predict the weather, by surprise.
SF News There Were Two Storm-Related Deaths In San Francisco, At Least Three Others Elsewhere In Bay Area Two San Franciscans died Tuesday, both reportedly suffering injuries from falling trees in the storm, and both were taken to Zuckerberg SF General Hospital.
SF News While Not Technically a 'Bomb Cyclone,' a Cyclone of a Storm Hits SF With Force The promise of very gusty winds came true Tuesday afternoon, complete with more glass flying off a downtown SF building, and satellite imagery of the cyclonic storm that slammed the California coast is pretty dramatic.
SF News [Updated] Storm, High Winds Leave 275,000 Bay Area Residents Without Power Around 2,000 PG&E customers in San Francisco lost power on Tuesday, and around 273,000 others across the region are also in the dark as the Bay Area gets lashed with winds at the back side of this latest atmospheric river storm.
SF News Some Bay Area Reservoirs Overflowing Amid Recent Rain This weekend’s rains have replenished local reservoirs, and many in the East Bay, North Bay, and South Bay have reached capacity.
