Marin weather to brighten as storm exits region
The heavy rains and strong winds that pounded Marin County over the weekend and into Tuesday morning are coming to an end.
Brian Garcia, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service, said Tuesday afternoon that showers will linger into Wednesday before the weather clears out Thursday and Friday.
“There’s a potential for a little bit of rain over the weekend,” he said.
Garcia said rainfall totals for the 24-hour period ending around midafternoon Tuesday included 0.91 inches in Dillon Beach; 0.89 inches in Tiburon; 0.40 inches in Novato; 0.39 inches on Mount Tamalpais; and 0.36 inches in San Rafael.
That added to the approximately 1 to 3 inches of rain that fell on parts of the county from Friday through Monday afternoon.
The strongest highest wind gust in Marin County on Tuesday was recorded at 45 mph at Pine Mountain Fire Road, Garcia said. The road is just east of Kent Lake and south of San Geronimo.
After scattered outages involving hundreds of meters in Marin on Monday, few outages were reported Tuesday in the county.
Around the Bay Area, Pacific Gas & Electric Co. said about 1,950 customers remained without power at 1 p.m. Tuesday. Of those, about 880 were in the North Bay, 490 in the East Bay and 260 in San Francisco.
PG&E spokesperson Jeff Smith said the Bay Area’s power outage situation in the recent storm was mild compared to the Feb. 4 storm, when hundreds of thousands lost power.
“It looks like the most severe portions of the weather have passed at this point,” he said.
Crews trying to return power were expected to have conditions with winds blowing far less intensely, meteorologist Sean Miller said.
“It’s not going to be anything like we’ve seen the last couple of days,” he said.
In the Lake Tahoe area, a winter storm warning remained in effect in that area through Wednesday morning.