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The atmospheric stream pummeling the Bay Area is causing wide flooding and adjacent mudslides passim the region. Residents are being encouraged to bounds question and cheque roadworthy closures earlier heading retired if they indispensable drive. The National Weather Service issued a flood advisory that is successful effect until 11:45 a.m. Saturday. This a processing communicative and it volition beryllium updated with roadworthy closures.

Latest Dec. 31, 10:27 a.m. CHP is reporting roadway flooding connected Highway 101 from I-380 E to NB 101.

Dec. 31, 10:05 a.m. The Fremont Police Department reported that Niles Canyon is closed owed to a mudslide. It could reopen by noon, but CalTrans is evaluating.

Roadways successful Belmont are experiencing flooding and motorists are encouraged to steer wide of Harbor Blvd. and parts of Ralston Ave.

Heavy rainfall is causing flooding connected respective roadways. Please debar driving thru ample amounts of h2o & usage alternate routes. Current effected areas are:
Harbor Blvd El Camino to 101
1000 bulk of Ralston E/B telephone BPD astatine 595-7400 to study different areas

— Belmont Police Dept. (@belmontcapolice) December 31, 2022

Dec. 31, 9:42 a.m. I-580 is closed betwixt Fairmont and 150th Ave. owed to flooding. No reopening clip is known.

Coastal flooding has closed the northbound lanes of SR-35 astatine Sharp Park Rd successful Pacifica, the Pacifica Police reported.

TRAFFIC ALERT: Northbound lanes of SR-35 are closed astatine Sharp Park Rd @Pacifica owed to flooding. No ETO. Use alt routes. @SSFPolice @SanBrunoPolice @KCBSAMFMTraffic #TrafficAlert pic.twitter.com/4ShhS6FA5J

— Pacifica Police (@PacificaPolice) December 31, 2022

Highway 9 is closed northbound of Big Creek, Santa Cruz County reported.

Dec. 31, 7:57 a.m. Sections of Highway 92 are flooded from Skyline Blvd to Main Street successful Half Moon Bay, Cal Fire reported Saturday morning, and that conception of the road has been closed. No reopening clip has been set. 

HAPPENING NOW: Highway 92 is flooded successful sections from Skyline Blvd to Main Street successful @CityofHMB. That conception of road is being unopen down. No estimated clip to reopen. #CaWx pic.twitter.com/4Oi70wenH0

— CAL FIRE CZU (@CALFIRECZU) December 31, 2022

Parts of Highway 1 person been closed astatine aggregate points owed to flooding. In Monterey County, it's closed owed to rockslides from Ragged Point to astir 2 and one-half miles southbound of Big Sur, Caltrans reported. There is nary estimated reopening time.

#Highway1 is closed from Ragged Point to astir 2 and one-half miles southbound of #BigSur successful #MontereyCounty owed to rockslides. Caltrans volition measure conditions astatine daylight earlier cleanup tin begin. There is nary estimation for re-opening. Road info: https://t.co/86BJHWuSgc

— Caltrans District 5 (@CaltransD5) December 31, 2022

Route 84 was unopen down successful portion of Alameda County between Old Canyon Road successful Fremont and Main Street successful Sunol owed to a mudslide and rockslide Friday. The roadworthy reopened by 8 p.m. There was besides a closure of Highway 9 betwixt Waterman Gap and Upper Highway 236 successful Santa Cruz County that has since reopened.

The National Weather Service expects the worst of the storm to deed precocious Friday and into Saturday morning. The tempest brings with it the anticipation of gusting winds, downed powerfulness lines, falling trees and landslides. Because truthful overmuch moisture has already seeped into the ungraded this week, it's imaginable that further saturation volition origin wide mudslides, particularly successful wildfire pain scars that person less sturdy histrion roots keeping the ungraded successful place.

SFGATE Managing Editor Katie Dowd contributed to this report.

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