SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – The Latest on California storms (all times local):

4:27 p.m.

(BCN) — The flood warning for the Napa and Russian rivers in the North Bay was canceled Friday afternoon, National Weather Service officials said.

The warning was canceled at 12:21 p.m.

The cancellation means the rivers will not exceed flood stage and the portions of Napa and Guerneville that were expected to flood will not.

Less rain fell than forecasted, meteorologist Charles Bell said.

“It was changed to be quite a bit lower,” he said.

The Napa River near St. Helena was expected to crest Friday at 2 p.m. at 11.5 feet and flooding doesn’t occur until the water reaches 16 feet.

On the Russian River near Guerneville, water was expected to crest Friday at 2 p.m. at about 26 feet. Flooding occurs when the water reaches 32 feet, weather service officials said.

At 11 a.m. the water level was 25.1 feet.

Still, the Mark West Creek in Sonoma County may exceed its banks. The creek connects to the Russian River near the Mirabel RV Park & Campground in Forestville, an unincorporated community in Sonoma County.

The rain has also caused a landslide that is blocking Occidental Road at Green Hill Road in unincorporated Sonoma County, between the unincorporated communities of Occidental and Graton.

Bell said with all the rain Thursday and Friday, a chance for rockslides, mudslides and landslides still exists and these can take down trees.

A flash flood watch is still in effect for Napa, Sonoma and Marin counties until 6 p.m. Sunday.

A wind advisory is in effect for the South Bay through Monterey County until 6 p.m. Friday evening.

Bell said a chance of lighter rain exists Friday evening and tonight for the Bay Area and then another round of heavier rain will come into the area Saturday.

The rain will persist for most of the day and Sunday will bring some more.

Light rain will fall on Monday and then much dryer air will come into the area on Tuesday. Temperatures next week will rise, too, Bell said.

Today through Monday, anywhere between three quarters and an inch of rain will fall where most of the people live in the Bay Area.

9:20 a.m.

California Highway 1 along the northern coast is closed indefinitely after overnight slides that nearly toppled a Caltrans dump truck with an employee inside.

Caltrans public information officer Phil Frisbie, Jr. said crews were responding to an initial slide around 3 a.m. north of Westport in Mendocino County when a second slide came down, nearly pushing the dump truck over the edge of the highway.

The truck tilted to a 45 degree angle. He said the employee is not injured.

Elsewhere in Mendocino County, a two-lane portion of U.S. 101 was down to one lane Friday morning after an overnight rock slide closed the highway for several hours north of Leggett.

Some schools are closed Friday and crews are preparing to close more roads as Northern California faces a second day of a series of storms expected to last through the weekend.

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6:45 a.m.

Flood watches and warnings are blanketing Northern California as the latest in a series of storms moves in.

The National Weather Service in the San Francisco Bay Area says flood warnings are in effect Friday for the Napa River near St. Helena and the Russian River near Guerneville.

Winter storm warnings for heavy snow are also in effect for the Sierra Nevada.

A Pacific storm system is also expected to move down through the Central Coast and into Southern California, bringing rain, possible thunderstorms and mountain snow lowering to 5,000-foot elevations.

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An already wet March is set to get even more moisture Friday and to bring further swells to lakes and dams in Northern California.

Heavy rain hit the region north of San Francisco on Thursday, bringing four inches to the coastal hills of wine country. Two to three more inches are expected on Friday and another storm is expected to roll in Saturday and stay for the rest of the weekend.

Flash-flood warnings were issued for swelling rivers and streams in Marin and Sonoma counties.

In Santa Rosa, which got 2.5 inches of rain Thursday, the storm caused a partial roof collapse at a Kmart store. No injuries were reported.

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