Watch in high quality (480p). In this video, it shows California get a pretty, wet, unsettled week this month of March 2012, particularly on the 13th-18th.

Firstly, the video shows rainy skies and conditions while heading to and from Oakland, CA. The rain was pretty light to moderate at most this day for much of the Bay Area. This was pretty much the 1st day of this week we got rainfall. (March 13, 2012)

Then on the following day (March 14, 2012), it shows more showery and rainy weather that impacted San Jose, CA. I also added a small time lapse of rain clouds drifting by. I also managed to get some weather forecast news on the radio while out and about.

Coming Thursday, March 15, 2012, the rainy weather continued. Pretty much the same. I added some photos as well, along with more weather forecast news.

And finally, this was when the heaviest and strongest storm system impacted our area; on Friday, March 16, 2012. This was the "3rd storm" to impact us. As the storm's cold front approached, light to moderate rain was experienced during the late afternoon hours. Then coming around 7ish p.m., the heaviest downpours were followed.

By 9:30 p.m. of Friday evening, heavy downpours were imminent throughout much of the Bay Area this day. Rainfall rates were at least 1/3 of an inch per hour in many locations. Even a flood advisory was issued for our area. This heavy rain continued until near midnight. I also drove over some partially flooded roads. But there are roads that look impassible. It's better to turn around and don't drown. The rain was coming down in big drops, almost sounding like hail! Even a fellow driver to the left of me splashed water on my windshield!

Then by 11ish p.m., the rains have subsided a bit but then one more brief period of heavier rainfall has come, just before I was able to get out of my car to go back in the house.

Coming the following day, March 17, 2012, the rains have lit up a bit. This was St. Patrick's Day by the way. Breezy conditions were felt along with afternoon showers. This day also brought hail to our area and I managed to get over a full minute of footage of it. As far SoCal, this storm also brought some thunderstorms and hail to that region as well on this day. It was indeed an active St. Patrick's Day weather-wise! The sun actually peeked out a small opening through the rain clouds, just in time for a lovely sunset. This was a nice sight since we actually didn't see the sun shine within pretty much this whole week period!

Finally, it was Sunday, March 18, 2012 and there were finally blue skies peeking out. In the early morning, I saw nice, icy, wispy thunderhead clouds just over the Santa Cruz Mountains to the southwest. By 10ish a.m., breezy northerly winds was encountered. It was pretty chilly outside, due to the recent storms.

By around 12:20 p.m. or so, an isolated storm cell (possibly a thundershower), formed just south of us, viewed from The Point Church. Unluckily no lightning...the usual Californian low-topped thunderstorm-type storm cell.

Then by the late afternoon hours on the same day, more rain showers were firing up around the area; thundershowers with no lightning/thunder associated with them. The late afternoon sun began to shine from underneath a particular weak storm cell that drifted over us. This was around San Jose, CA still. I was with my parents. We were at the barber shop.

The remainder of the video just shows one of my best photos taken during this storm week of March 13-18, 2012. This storm system later drifted eastward, later affecting the southern plains and southern states in the form of severe weather. If only this storm didn't "wait" and dropped its bomb of severe weather here in California...

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