A cold front moving in from the Gulf of Alaska is pushing through the Bay Area on Monday, bringing with it solid rain totals that are soaking Veteran's Day events around the region.
The rain, along with chilly temperatures, are expected to last through early afternoon and taper off during the evening and overnight hours, with Tuesday being largely dry, said National Weather Service meteorologist Roger Gass.
So far, rain totals of between .4 inches and .17 inches have been reported from San Francisco to the Oakland Hills and throughout the East Bay.
The highest totals, from .5 inches to .75 inches, were recorded in the North Bay coastal ranges and Santa Cruz Mountains.
As the storm moves to the southeast, those rainfall amounts will begin to impact the South Bay and Monterey Bay regions.
"Most of this will be beneficial, we're not expecting any flooding concerns through the entire week," Gass said. "The next rain enters the picture Wednesday and it remains unsettled through the end of the week and the early part of the weekend."
Along with the rain, temperatures have dropped throughout the region, with the lows hovering in the low to mid 40s and highs in the upper 50s to low 60s.
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The storm has prompted wind advisories along Interstate 580 at the Altamont Pass in Alameda County and at the San Mateo Bridge, some flooded local streets in Oakland and Martinez, and several spinouts and minor traffic collisions throughout the Bay Area, according to the California Highway Patrol.
The regional soaking is potentially putting a damper on Veteran's Day celebrations around the Bay Area, as well, but at least one event, the annual commemoration aboard the USS Hornet in Alameda, is moving ahead mostly as planned.
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Russell Moore, one of the event's organizers, said there were about 200 people already on the ship waiting for the ceremony to begin inside the main hanger bay Monday morning.
"It might be that a lot of people decided to hit us up instead of the parades," Moore said.
The only part of the program that had to be cancelled due to weather was a flyover from The Memorial Squadron, a group of volunteer pilots that help celebrate veterans' events every year.
