San Francisco received nearly 5.5 inches of rainfall on New Year's Eve, marking the city's second-wettest day since records began over 170 years ago.
This surge of bad weather is caused by something known as an atmospheric river, a long and narrow band of water vapor that forms over the ocean. These atmospheric rivers are being slung off by a bomb cyclone over the Pacific, which is an area of concentrated low pressure—was also responsible for the frigid temperatures that buffeted the Midwest just before Christmas.
Even more bad weather is headed toward the Bay Area and surrounds as the week continues, the NWS warned. "A potent atmospheric river will begin to impact the region Wednesday and continue into Thursday. This will bring substantial rainfall to the San Francisco Bay Area and Central Coast on top of already saturated soils. As a result look for rapid rises in area creeks, streams, and rivers," theAnother three inches of rain are expected to fall in urban San Francisco, with between 5 and 8 inches in the valleys and mountains nearby.Here we go again, but this time with lots of wind.
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