Moderate rain and mountain snow fell with a series of systems, bringing 5 to 10 inches of snow above 6000 feet, and 3-5 of water equivalent in the northern Sierra.
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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.
Moderate rain and mountain snow fell with a series of systems, bringing 5 to 10 inches of snow above 6000 feet, and 3-5 of water equivalent in the northern Sierra.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
2 winter weather, 1 heavy rain. Local standard time, as filed.
Snow caused chain controls and travel delays on Highway 50 and Interstate 80. There were 8 inches of snow measured over 24 hours at 6000 feet at Kingvale, water equivalent 1.84 inches.
Snow caused chain controls and travel delays on mountain highways in the mountains of western Plumas County and Lassen National Park. There were 10 inches of snow measured 5 miles east of Chester.
There was 1.20 inches of rain measured over 24 hours, 2 miles west northwest of Granite Bay.
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, November 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: 668067, 668068, 668073.