Aftermath photos: Bay Area recovers from category 3 atmospheric river
Two dead in Northern California bomb cyclone that downed power and trees across region Wednesday and Thursday.
More rain was expected to fall in the Bay Area on Thursday, but the most intense part of the powerful storm that rolled through the region Wednesday is over, according to the National Weather Service.
“Now, we’re in a mostly post-frontal environment,” NWS meteorologist Brayden Murdock said Thursday morning.
“As far as the bomb cyclone, that’s run aground. So the next system will be a low-pressure one but it’s not related to that.”
The storm Wednesday, the third atmospheric river storm to roll through the region since the start of winter, apparently caused two deaths and brought with it widespread flooding and damaging winds.
Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency, as officials scrambled to help unhoused people stay safe across the Bay Area.
Murdock said about a three-quarters of an inch of rain was expected to fall in the region’s hills and mountains Thursday.
But he added that the rest of the Bay Area is likely to get between one-tenth and a quarter-inch of rain.
Reporting by Jason Green and Rick Hurd.
