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A powerful blizzard that a meteorologist termed “as bad as it gets” howled in the Sierra Nevada mountains, closing a long stretch of Interstate 80 in Northern California, forcing ski resorts ...
The system will bring several feet of snow and high winds to the Sierra Nevada mountains, triggering winter storm warnings describing "difficult to impossible" travel conditions on mountain passes ...
Much of the Sierra Nevada was under a blizzard warning Thursday as a storm that forecasters say is shaping up to be the strongest of the season began to blow into the region. As much as 10 feet (3 ...
A powerful blizzard is underway in the Sierra Nevada and forecast to bring relentless snow over the next two days, with wind gusts already clocking 145 mph at the highest peaks in the Sierra and ...
The snow will begin to intensify across northern and central portions of the Sierra on Thursday night into early Friday morning. Heavy snow and fierce winds will affect the Sierra all day while ...
Used in 1542 by Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo to describe a Pacific Coast Range (Santa Cruz Mountains), the term "Sierra Nevada" was a general identification of less familiar ranges toward the interior. [11] In 1776, Pedro Font's map applied the name to the range currently known as the Sierra Nevada. [12]
The most powerful Pacific storm of the season is forecast to bring up to 10 feet (3 meters) of snow into the Sierra Nevada by the weekend, forcing residents to take shelter and prompting Yosemite ...
The most extreme weather conditions unfolded in the Sierra Nevada, where the storm delivered hurricane-force winds and yards of snow. "At Palisades Tahoe Ski Area near Lake Tahoe, a 126 mph wind ...