A strong winter storm system brought wintry conditions to the higher elevations. This caused travel difficulties over the mountain passes and higher roads.
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.
The episode as NWS STO wrote it up.
A strong winter storm system brought wintry conditions to the higher elevations. This caused travel difficulties over the mountain passes and higher roads. Storm total snow amounts up to 17 inches were reported above 8000 feet in the northern Sierra Nevada mountains.
5 winter storm. Local standard time, as filed.
Seven inches of snow fell at Mineral, causing travel difficulties on higher mountain roads.
Seven to twelve inches of snow fell at area ski resorts above 5000 feet, with 17 inches measured above 8000 feet. The snow along with locally gusty winds causing travel difficulties on higher mountain pass roads such as Highway 50 and Interstate 80.
Four to eight inches of snow fell across the highest elevations with five inches falling at Shasta City.
Five to eight inches of snow fell across the highest elevations.
Six to ten inches of snow fell across the area including six inches in Burney.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in California in 2010Every state in 2010This day in weather historyWarnings in California, January 2010
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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 212885, 212886, 246830, 246831, 246829.