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In the last week, more than 6 feet of fresh snow fell at the Central Sierra Snow Lab.
As the storm courses through Northern California, rain is in the forecast for Sacramento. McKinley Thompson-Morley walks to work in the rain on Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2024 in downtown Sacramento near ...
The storms caused record-breaking rainfall totals to be observed in multiple areas, as well as the declaration of states of emergency in multiple counties in Southern California. [3] [4] Wind gusts of hurricane force were observed in San Francisco, along with wind gusts reaching over 100 miles per hour (160 km/h) in the Sierra Nevada.
It impacted Northern California, resulting in some of the most devastating flooding since the Great Flood of 1862. Similarly to the 1862 event, the flooding was a combined effect of heavy rainfall and excessive snowmelt of the relatively large early-season Sierra Nevada snowpack. [3]
A powerful blizzard is dumping snow in the Sierra Nevada as gusty winds and heavy rain hit lower elevations ... the weather service said. California authorities on Friday shut down 100 miles (160 ...
That’s more than double the 30-year normal rainfall of 3.88 inches for the season to date, and well on the way to approaching the 30-year normal of 10.99 inches for the entire water season that ...
The Nevada Department of Transportation closed travel lanes on Nevada State Route 447. [13] Debris closed all but one lane on U.S. Route 93 northbound. [14] The National Weather Service office in Las Vegas recorded 0.88 inches (22 mm) of rainfall, which was the wettest day in September in 11 years. [15]
• Over the 10-day period ending on Jan. 4, Downtown San Francisco recorded 10.33 inches of rain, marking the wettest 10-day stretch there since the Civil War era in January 1862, when 14.37 ...