Heavy Snow, Upper Trinity River
- When
- December 7, 8:00 PM PST to December 8, 7:00 AM PST
- Where
- Upper Trinity River forecast zone
Heavy Snow in California, December 7 to 8, 1997
Heavy snow fell across much of the higher terrain of Northwest California. Five to seven inches fell above 3800 feet in Mendocino and Trinity Counties.
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 3
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
What happened
The episode as NWS EKA wrote it up.
Heavy snow fell across much of the higher terrain of Northwest California. Five to seven inches fell above 3800 feet in Mendocino and Trinity Counties. Two inches fell as low as 1700 feet in Humboldt County.
Event by event
3 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.
Heavy Snow, Mendocino Interior
- When
- December 7, 8:00 PM PST to December 8, 9:15 AM PST
- Where
- Mendocino Interior forecast zone
Heavy Snow, North Coast Interior
- When
- December 7, 8:00 PM PST to December 8, 7:15 AM PST
- Where
- North Coast Interior forecast zone
What these are
- Heavy Snow
- Snowfall reaching the local warning threshold without the other hazards of a winter storm.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Winter Storm in Utah, December 7 to 8, 1997
- Heavy Snow in Kansas, December 7 to 8, 1997
- Ice Storm in Nebraska, December 7 to 9, 1997
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Texas, December 7 to 8, 1997
- Winter Storm and Flooding in California, December 7 to 8, 1997
- Winter Storm in Nebraska, December 7 to 8, 1997
- Heavy Snow in Colorado, December 7 to 8, 1997
- Winter Storm in California, December 7 to 8, 1997
- Heavy Snow in Idaho, December 7 to 8, 1997
- Winter Storm in Oregon, December 7 to 8, 1997
- Heavy Snow in Pennsylvania, December 7, 1997
- Dense Fog in Nevada, December 7, 1997
More
Every storm in California in 1997Every state in 1997This day in weather historyWarnings in California, December 1997
Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5626497, 5626498, 5626499.