Bear Creek Road, Canyon closed in Santa Cruz Co. due to fallen tree
Bear Creek Road and Bear Creek Canyon in Santa Cruz County is shut down due to a fallen tree.
It's unknown when the road will reopen.
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- The National Weather Service forecast for the greater San Francisco Bay Area for Saturday calls for rain and thunderstorm in most part of the region.
Daytime highs will be mostly in the high 50s to low 60s on the coast, mid 50s to low 60s around the bay, and in the mid to high 60s inland. Overnight lows will be mostly in the mid 30s to low 40s.
According to the NWS, the North Bay and Bay Area will experience moderate to heavy rainfall Saturday night with strong winds. Strong south winds of 30 to 40 mph with gusts up to 55 mph are possible.
There was a High Wind Warning in the Coastal areas and East Bay Hills until 7 a.m., on Saturday. There was an ongoing Wind Advisory in the Interior Bay Area and Interior Central Coast effective until Saturday, 10 a.m.
The weather conditions are expected to be the strongest overnight and into late Sunday morning.
Bear Creek Road and Bear Creek Canyon in Santa Cruz County is shut down due to a fallen tree.
It's unknown when the road will reopen.
Highway 9 at Buck Knoll Road in Boulder Creek is currently closed after power lines fell, toppling trees, according to the CHP.
Motorists are asked to avoid the area. And it's unknown when the road will reopen.
The same system that spawned a tornado warning in San Francisco and toppled trees across the Bay Area is now dumping snow up in the Sierra Nevada.
Footage posted to X by UC Berkeley Central Sierra Snow Lab shows snow piled up at their base in Soda Springs.
"Believe it or not, it was during a period of better conditions," the lab wrote, adding they were expecting up to 20 more inches of snow in the next 24 hours.
A Winter Storm Warning is in effect for the region until Saturday night.
Novato police reported a citywide power outage on Saturday at 11 a.m. and asked residents to avoid unnecessary travel.
The outage was caused by a storm with high winds that arrived in the Bay Area Friday night, leaving multiple downed wires and trees, flooded roads, and inoperable traffic signals in Novato, according to the police advisory.
Police asked residents to stay home, avoid travel if possible, and only call 911 in an emergency. Road conditions are dangerous because of debris and fallen limbs.
PG&E's live outage map showed 7,440 customers affected as of 11:10 a.m.
According to a PG&E spokesperson, there were about 30,000 customers in Marin County without power as of 11:20 a.m.
The storm left more than 150,000 customers around the Bay Area and Central Coast without power, including major outages in the counties of Alameda, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, and Monterey.
Outages were reported in every Bay Area County, as the storm dumped between 1-3 inches of rain in most parts of the region, with wind gusts forecast as high as 55 mph, according to the National Weather Service.