Weather

At King’s Nursery in Santa Rosa, floor manager Ron Magill used a frost cloth to cover certain plants for the night to protect them from the frigid cold.

The City and County of Sonoma have extended their extreme cold weather warming center operations through Saturday morning Friday This afternoon, Marin County opened up an a similar center in San Rafael

California water agencies that serve 27 million people will get just 5% of what they requested from the state to start 2023, water officials announced Thursday.

A new storm watch follows Friday night through the weekend, with as much as 3 feet of snow possible at the highest elevations by Sunday.

San Francisco is asking people to clear those catch basins if they see any debris that could slow the drainage of water from the next storm. Meanwhile, the North Bay was spared mass outages.

The first day of December is bringing brewing storms with the first one hitting Thursday morning throughout the Bay Area and the Sierra.

Glowfari holiday lights event at the Oakland Zoo was canceled Wednesday night due to a power outage. 

Areas in the North Bay could see temperatures near freezing Tuesday night, followed by rain later in the week. So Santa Rosa has activated its emergency warming center protocol for the first time this season, and in a new location. 

Call it the calm before the storm. Bay Area residents were being warned that a major change was on the way from the mild late-November weather the region has been experiencing.