A cold front will bring the Bay Area’s first widespread rainfall of the season on Veterans Day, with another round of wet weather expected later this week.
According to the National Weather Service, the main rain band reached the San Francisco Bay area Monday morning and is expected to remain south and eastward into the afternoon. Even after the cold front has passed, lingering showers are expected.
So far, rain totals of between 0.4 inches and 0.17 inches have been reported late Monday morning from San Francisco to the Oakland Hills and throughout the East Bay.
The highest totals, from 0.5 inches to 0.75 inches, were recorded in the coastal areas of North Bay and the Santa Cruz Mountains.
As the storm moves southeast, precipitation amounts will begin to impact the South Bay and Monterey Bay regions.
“Most of this will be helpful, we don’t expect any flooding concerns all week,” Gass said. “The next rain is expected on Wednesday and it will remain unsettled until the end of the week and the beginning of the weekend.”
Along with the rain, temperatures have dropped across the region, with lows hovering in the low to mid 40s and highs in the upper 50s to low 60s.
According to the California Highway Patrol, the storm caused wind advisories along Interstate Highway 580 at the Altamont Pass in Alameda County and at the San Mateo Bridge, some flooded local streets in Oakland and Martinez and several spinouts and minor traffic accidents in the Bay Area.
Berkeley police advised motorists to avoid the Ashby Avenue underpass at Seventh Street, which is flooded Monday morning.
The underpass will be closed until further notice, police said shortly before 11 a.m. There is no estimated time for the roadway to reopen.
The regional wetness could also potentially put a damper on Veterans Day celebrations in the Bay Area, but at least one event, the annual commemoration aboard the USS Hornet in Alameda, will go on largely as planned.
Russell Moore, one of the event organizers, said about 200 people were already on the ship waiting for the ceremony to begin in the main hangar area on Monday morning.
“It may be that a lot of people decided to cover us instead of the parades,” Moore said.
The only part of the program that had to be canceled due to weather conditions was a flyover by the Memorial Squadron, a group of volunteer pilots who help celebrate veterans events each year.
