Several storm systems back to back brought heavy rain, windy conditions, and snow up to 1 to 2 feet of snow.
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
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.
Several storm systems back to back brought heavy rain, windy conditions, and snow up to 1 to 2 feet of snow.
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Sacramento, CA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jan 22, 3:57 AM PST, 3 hours 3 minutes earlier.
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</html>The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
3 heavy snow, 3 heavy rain. Local standard time, as filed.
There was 14.0 inches of snow measured at Kirkwood Ski Resort, 24 hour total.
There was a 24 hour total of 1.45 inches of rain at Pacific House.
There was a 24 hour total of 1.06 inches of rain at Kyburz.
There was 14.0 inches of snow measured at Dodge Ridge Ski Resort, 24 hour total.
There was 12.0 inches of snow measured at Sugar Bowl Ski Resort, 24 hour total.
There was a 24 hour total of 3.17 inches of rain at Castella.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in California in 2016Every state in 2016This day in weather historyWarnings in California, January 2016
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: 617393, 617460, 617461, 617394, 617395, 617462.