Cold front brings Bay Area's first significant rainfall of season on Veterans Day
A cold front is bringing the first widespread rainfall of the season in the Bay Area on Veterans Day, with another round of wet weather expected later this week.
According to the National Weather Service, the main rain band has reached the San Francisco Bay region Monday morning and is expected to continue south and east into the afternoon. Lingering showers are also expected after the cold front passes.
By 5 p.m., 24 hour rain totals were at almost three-quarters of an inch for Mill Valley and over a half an inch for Pacifica and the Oakland Hills, according to CBS News Bay Area chief meteorologist Paul Heggen.
As the storm moved to the southeast, those rainfall amounts will impacted the South Bay and Monterey Bay regions.
"Most of this will be beneficial, we're not expecting any flooding concerns through the entire week," Gass said. "The next rain enters the picture Wednesday and it remains unsettled through the end of the week and the early part of the weekend."
Along with the rain, temperatures have dropped throughout the region, with the lows hovering in the low to mid 40s and highs in the upper 50s to low 60s.
The storm prompted 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 collisions throughout the Bay Area, according to the California Highway Patrol.
Berkeley police advised motorists to avoid the Ashby Avenue underpass at Seventh Street, which is flooded on Monday morning.
The underpass will be closed until further notice, police said shortly before 11 a.m. The road reopened to traffic at about 2:30 p.m., police said.
The regional soaking is potentially putting a damper on Veteran's Day celebrations around the Bay Area, as well, but at least one event, the annual commemoration aboard the USS Hornet in Alameda, is moving ahead mostly as planned.
Russell Moore, one of the event's organizers, said there were about 200 people already on the ship waiting for the ceremony to begin inside the main hanger bay Monday morning.
"It might be that a lot of people decided to hit us up instead of the parades," Moore said.
The only part of the program that had to be cancelled due to weather was a flyover from the Memorial Squadron, a group of volunteer pilots that help celebrate veterans' events every year.
