This week’s atmospheric river storm smashed some heavy rainfall records in parts of the Bay Area, especially the North Bay, before mostly petering out by Saturday morning. Downtown Santa Rosa received 12.

Downtown Santa Rosa broke a century-plus record for having the most amount of rain within a 72-hour period — 12,7 inches. The previous record was 9.72 inches. “We broke it by a healthy margin,” Flynn said. “We’ve never seen that much of rain over three days since we started recording.”

Sunny skies on Saturday morning gave Northern California residents a break from the two days of heavy rains that pounded the region, breaking daily rainfall records in cities from Santa Rosa to San Jose.

Two people died in Northern California on Thursday as major storm unleashed heavy snow, record rainfall, and devastating flooding.