A cold weather system brought moderate amounts of snow to the Sierra Nevada and southern Cascades. Chain controls and mountain travel delays were observed.
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The episode as NWS STO wrote it up.
A cold weather system brought moderate amounts of snow to the Sierra Nevada and southern Cascades. Chain controls and mountain travel delays were observed.
4 winter storm. Local standard time, as filed.
Caltrans reported 24.5 inches of new snow at their Kingvale location and 20 inches at Soda Springs. Chain controls were in place on I80 from 10:15 am on the 13th through 10:00 am on the 15th.
Sierra Nevada Ski Resorts reported between 4 and 20 inches of snow accumulation for the entire event. Kirkwood reported 4 inches, Sugar Bowl 16 inches, Boreal reported 20 inches, and Bear Valley got 6 inches of total snow. Strong winds were also observed during the event with recorded gusts over the Sierra Crest reaching 79-83 mph each day of the event.
Sierra snow lab reported 24 inches of new snow accumulation.
CoCoRaHS observer reported 5.5 inches of new snow 5.6 miles WSW of Meadow Valley at an elevation of 4,370 feet. 5.3 miles ENE of Shingletown at an elevation of 3,980 feet saw 0.6 inches of snow.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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