A powerful Christmas Day storm battered the San Francisco Bay Area and Central Coast with damaging winds, heavy rain and flash flooding, prompting multiple warnings and travel hazards across the region,

Flooding triggered shelter-in-place warnings and possible evacuations early Wednesday morning in parts of Menlo Park as heavy rain continued to impact

Bay Area is included in an updated flood watch released by the National Weather Service on Tuesday at 11:39 p.m. The watch is in effect until Friday Dec. 26, at 10 p.m.

A series of powerful Pacific storms will pound the Bay Area and Central Coast through Christmas week, bringing periods of heavy rain, damaging winds, flooding and dangerous surf, forecasters said Monday.

The NWS extends flood watch due to an atmospheric river; warns of heavy rain, high winds, and severe thunderstorms in the Bay Area.

Flooding shut down some lanes of state Highway 87 near state Highway 85 in San Jose early Thursday morning, prompting authorities to urge drivers to avoid the area. Around 5:10 a.m., the

Bay Area is under an updated flood watch which was issued by the National Weather Service on Monday at 11:58 a.m. The watch is valid from Tuesday 10 a.m. until Friday Dec. 26, at 10 p.m.

The chance of flooding will increase across the Bay Area between Tuesday night and Wednesday morning as an incoming storm is expected to drop another 1 to 3.5 inches of rain across the

Another atmospheric river is forecast to drench the Bay Area beginning Tuesday evening and lasting through Christmas, bringing heavy rain and triggering a flood watch. As the storm intensifies, plumes of moisture from a Pacific cyclone are pushing toward the region,

A flood watch was in effect for California’s greater Bay Area and Central Coast on Tuesday as an atmospheric river continued to drive stormy weather across the state.The watch was in effect through Friday evening,