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The three-day total could be around 13 inches, far surpassing the current record of nine inches set during an atmospheric river storm in 2021. A few other spots at higher elevations in the North Bay have received even more precipitation, as much as 20 inches, he said.
“This is actually one of the wettest portions of the Bay Area, so the fact that this is high-end for that area really shows that this is pretty unprecedented territory,” Mr. Murdock said.
The Russian River, which flows through the Napa and Sonoma wine regions, neared flood stage on Friday, and forecasters warned it would most likely continue to swell over the next day.
Though rainfall slowed somewhat in the North Bay on Friday, as the storm inched south, flooding is most likely to continue into Saturday. Water that collected in mountain streams will continue to flow into the river, Mr. Murdock said.
The storm is expected to continue moving south on Friday to Monterey Bay, and later to California’s Central Coast and even to the Los Angeles region. The storm will most likely bring less than an inch of rain to Los Angeles over the weekend.
