It's really raining now.

This is a rainy season for the ages, to be sure.

The reservoirs are filling rapidly, and snow is continuing to pile up in the mountains.

I can't recall seeing a weather map like this in a long time. Pretty much the entire state of California, from Los Angeles County all the way to the Oregon border, is seeing precipitation simultaneously.

It's raining all up and down the state, except for in the mountains where it's snowing.

Hurricane force winds at my son's house near Sacramento knocked down his back yard fence yesterday, so he got a chance to meet some of his neighbors face to face.

So far, the California reservoirs are still not threatened seriously yet. It is a massive system, with stupendous capacity, and they've pretty much all still got lots of room to spare, so the flooding is mostly confined to a few places, such as the Cosumnes River, which are unusual and have no flood control reservoirs at all.

Here in the Bay Area most of our local rivers are fairly small, but still the flooding will be significant. Here's the sort of thing you very rarely see in a Bay Area weather forecast:

ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
  - At 657 AM PST, Automated rain gauges and satellite indicated
    heavy rain. Minor flooding is already occurring in the
    advisory area.
  - Some locations that will experience flooding include...
    San Jose, San Francisco, Oakland, Fremont, Hayward,
    Sunnyvale, Concord, Santa Clara, Berkeley, Richmond, Antioch,
    Daly City, San Mateo, San Leandro, Livermore, Redwood City,
    Mountain View, Alameda, San Ramon and Pleasanton.

Stay warm and stay dry if you can, everyone, and watch the reservoirs rise.