Santa Claus walks in the rain at Christmas in the Park at Plaza de Cesar Chavez in San Jose, Calif., on Saturday, Dec. 8, 2022. (Shae Hammond/Bay Area News Group)
The Bay Area’s sunny Christmas weekend is coming to a climactic end, just in time to safely deflate your ornamental Santa. On Monday night through Tuesday, a powerful atmospheric river storm heading in from Guam in the western Pacific Ocean will drench the region and shake loose holiday decorations with blustery winds gusting up to 50 miles per hour in some spots.
The downpour is forecast to start Monday evening in the North