An atmospheric river that was forecasted to blow through the Bay Area this week has stalled in the North Bay on Thursday, causing flooding in many places, according to the National Weather Service.

The storm that arrived in the North Bay late Tuesday has remained stationary over the region, dropping more than 16 inches of rain in parts of Sonoma County like Occidental and Venado in the past 48 hours, weather service meteorologist Rachel Kennedy said Thursday afternoon.

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Dan McMenamin is the managing editor at Bay City News, directing daily news coverage of the 12-county greater Bay Area. He has worked for BCN since 2008 and has been managing editor since 2014 after previously serving as BCN’s San Francisco bureau reporter. A UC Davis graduate, he came to BCN after working for a newspaper and nonprofit in the Davis area. He handles staffing, including coaching of our interns, day-to-day coverage decisions and management of the newswire.