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The UC Berkeley Central Sierra Snow Laboratory, located at Donner Pass in the Sierra Nevada, reported no snowfall in the past 24 hours as of Tuesday. ... What’s in the weather forecast for Tahoe?
A Caltrans tow truck is surrounded by snow along a closed Interstate 80 near Donner Pass on Saturday, March 2, 2024, after authorities shut down the major freeway due to whiteout conditions.
Snow is in the forecast for South Lake Tahoe over the next five days, according to the National Weather Service. On Tuesday, there is a 60% chance of snow likely before 4 p.m. with a high near 35 ...
More snow is headed to the Tahoe area this weekend, according the National Weather Service’s latest forecast. The weather service issued a winter storm watch for Saturday and Sunday at ...
At the peak of the storm, some locations — like Donner Pass in California and Lake Tahoe on the California-Nevada border — could experience snowfall rates of 1 to 2 inches per hour and ...
Donner Pass is a 7,056-foot-high (2,151 m) [2] mountain pass in the northern Sierra Nevada, above Donner Lake and Donner Memorial State Park about 9 miles (14 km) west of Truckee, California. Like the Sierra Nevada themselves, the pass has a steep approach from the east and a gradual approach from the west.
Along the two main routes many visitors from the San Francisco Bay Area take to the Lake Tahoe area, the highest point of Interstate 80 — Donner Pass, at an elevation of about 7,000 feet ...
The railroad originally traversed the steep north cliffs of the peak via tunnels and snow sheds before the 10,322-foot-long (3,146 m) Tunnel #41 running under Mount Judah and Donner Peak was opened in 1925. The peak, pass, and lake are named for the ill-fated Donner Party who spent the winter of 1846–1847 snowbound at the east end of Donner ...