![]() ![]() Monday through early Wednesday morning.Ībout one to three feet of snow is forecast to fall in areas from 2,000 to 3,000 feet in elevation, while the northern Sacramento Valley could receive one to five inches of snow. The agency issued its first blizzard warning in more than two years for the northern Sierra Nevada, with forecasts calling for three to seven feet of snow for areas above 3,000 feet from about 4 a.m. “It’s going to be stronger than a normal winter storm.” “Don’t go to the mountains,” said Johnnie Powell, an NWS meteorologist. Hamilton, the Santa Cruz Mountains and portions of eastern Santa Clara.īy Thursday, conditions will improve and temperatures will jump back up to the mid-to-upper 50s.īut to the east, the incoming storm system is expected to wallop the Sierra Nevada with up to seven feet of snow. A sprinkling of a few inches of snow is expected on Mt. Temperatures over the next few days are expected to be in the low 50s - and high 40s in some of the Bay Area’s mountainous regions. The storm will become milder Tuesday as rainfall drops to about a quarter of an inch throughout the region, Lorber said. Stay weather aware and keep up with forecast changes! #cawx /al2f10kxmW Look for rain, high elevation snow, gusty winds, and even a few thunderstorms. Unsettled weather arrives tomorrow and continues through mid week. “It could be a pretty messy Monday morning commute with some water on the roadways and some localized flooding,” said Jeff Lorber, a National Weather Service meteorologist. Gusts are forecasted to reach between 25 and 35 miles per hour and there’s a chance of thunderstorms. with up to an inch of water expected to drop throughout the region into the afternoon. and moving south to the Peninsula around 10 a.m. The stronger system will come Monday, with heavy rainfall starting in the North Bay around 7 a.m. The incoming Bay Area system was expected to bring up to a quarter inch of rain on Sunday into the evening, with an uptick in winds. “It’s looking like it could be definitely one of the snowiest years we’ve had in a couple of decades,” said Andrew Schwartz of the UC Berkeley Central Sierra Snow Laboratory, which has already measured 37 feet of snow atop Donner Pass this season. As a result, temperatures in the Bay Area could remain unseasonably chilly while the Sierra is buried in several feet of new snow – further adding to this season’s banner mountain snowpack. The system is at the tail end of a bout of cold air coming down from western Canada that pummeled portions of Northern California this past week with record-breaking snowfall. A storm that could lash the Bay Area with more rain and wind early this week also could bring fierce, blizzard-like conditions to the Sierra Nevada mountains, prompting officials to issue stark warnings to those hoping for a snow-filled escape this week. ![]()
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