Atmospheric river peaks Tuesday

Since stormy weather came into the region Friday, the North Bay has been the hardest hit, with Mount Tamalpais in Marin County receiving more than 16 inches of rain in that time, weather service meteorologist Brayden Murdock said.

Higher elevations in Sonoma and Napa counties have received more than 10 inches, while urban North Bay cities like Santa Rosa have received more than 6 inches, Murdock said.

Among the impacts from the stormy weather Tuesday was a landslide that sent a home into the Russian River in Forestville, according to the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office.

Many roads and highways were fully or partially shut down because of flooding. Rohnert Park City Hall closed because of the flooding of nearby Copeland Creek and adjacent streets. The City Hall is expected to reopen at 8 a.m. Wednesday, city officials said.

Wet weather is expected to remain in the Bay Area through this coming Friday, with up to 6 inches of rain still possible at higher elevations and 1 1/2 to 3 inches for most of the rest of the region, according to the weather service.

As of 3 p.m. Tuesday, about 27,000 Pacific Gas and Electric customers in Northern and Central California were without power.

“We’re starting to enter the peak risk period in terms of rain, winds and the associated outages,” Jake Zigelman, vice president of PG&E’s Bay Area region, said during a briefing Tuesday in San Carlos. “So we expect that to ramp up over the course of the day and into the evening.”

On the Peninsula, PG&E was expecting parts of the Santa Cruz Mountains and western San Mateo County to be impacted the most. As of Tuesday afternoon, there were 3,429 customers without power on the Peninsula, mostly in Pacifica, Colma, Daly City, Montara, Moss Beach and El Granada, PG&E spokesperson Tamar Sarkissian said.

In addition, 3,816 customers in the North Bay and about 1,000 customers in the East Bay were also enduring outages as of Tuesday afternoon.

All customers should automatically receive a notification when their power goes out, an update for when power is expected to be restored, and then a final message once the power goes back on, Zigelman said.

An up-to-date map showing current areas with power outages can be found at https://pgealerts.alerts.pge.com/outage-tools/outage-map/.