First of several storms arrives in Bay Area, starting off rainy week

Clouds were growing darker across the Bay Area on Sunday morning as the first of three back-to-back rain storms landed in the region, which are expected to bring several inches of rain from San Jose to the North Bay in rainy days that could last through next Sunday.

The rainfall was expected to intensify in the late afternoon Sunday and into the night as the first storm arrives from the Gulf of Alaska, said Roger Gass, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service.

“The initial storm system is off the coast...