Sunday's dry spell helped the Bay Area briefly recover from a powerful storm over the New Year weekend, but a "Pineapple Express" -- the term meteorologists use to describe a flow of moisture from areas just north of Hawaii directly into the Pacific Northwest that is often accompanied by heavy rain -- is on its way to the area, generating a midweek storm in the Bay Area, forecasters said Monday.
With this, clean-up efforts to rescue flooded rivers and clear mudslides from roads will be halted by the atmospheric phenomenon, which will reach