California, 2024Heavy Snow and Winter Weather in California, February 1 to 2, 2024
February 1 to 2, 2024 · NWS REV · 3 events in 2 counties and zones
An ongoing winter system continued to impact the Sierra with travel impacts across Sierra passes with areas of intermittent snow showers to continue through Saturday across the Sierra.
Every event with a place to put it; 3 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
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- Heat and drought
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- 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.
An ongoing winter system continued to impact the Sierra with travel impacts across Sierra passes with areas of intermittent snow showers to continue through Saturday across the Sierra.
What forecasters said that day
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 Reno, NV wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jan 31, 2:21 PM PST, 9 hours 39 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 31, 2:21 PM PST, 9 hours 39 minutes before
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</html>Heavy Snow, Greater Lake Tahoe Area
- When
- February 1, 12:00 AM PST to 8:00 AM PST
- Where
- Greater Lake Tahoe Area forecast zone
- Reported by
- Local Official
- Coordinates
- 38.935, -120.458 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
A local official located 6.0 mi W of Truckee, CA at the Central Sierra Snow Laboratory reported 24 hour storm total snowfall amounts of 10.6 inches.
Winter Weather, Greater Lake Tahoe Area
- When
- February 1, 12:00 AM PST to 8:00 AM PST
- Where
- Greater Lake Tahoe Area forecast zone
- Reported by
- Local Official
- Coordinates
- 38.935, -120.458 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
A local official located 6.0 mi W of Truckee, CA at the Central Sierra Snow Laboratory reported 24 hour storm total snowfall amounts of 10.6 inches.
Heavy Snow, Mono
- When
- February 1, 6:30 AM PST to February 2, 6:30 AM PST
- Where
- Mono forecast zone
- Reported by
- Public
- Coordinates
- 37.939, -118.887 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
The public located at the Mammoth Mountain Ski Base, Main Lodge, CA, reported a 24 hour storm total snowfall amount of 13.0 inches, and a two day total at the summit of 25.0 inches.
- Heavy Snow
- Snowfall reaching the local warning threshold without the other hazards of a winter storm.
- Winter Weather
- Snow, sleet or freezing rain below warning levels that still caused disruption, damage or casualties.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
- Flooding and Heavy Snow in California, February 1 to 2, 202465 kt wind · 48 events
- Drought in Iowa, February 1 to 29, 202444 events
- Heavy Snow in Colorado, February 1 to 4, 202437 events
- Drought in New Mexico, February 1 to 29, 202436 events
- Drought in Mississippi, February 1 to 29, 202421 events
- Drought in New Mexico, February 1 to 29, 202417 events
- Drought in Nebraska, February 1 to 29, 202416 events
- Winter Storm and Heavy Snow in Colorado, February 1 to 4, 202412 events
- Drought in Tennessee, February 1 to 29, 202410 events
- Drought in Kansas, February 1 to 29, 20249 events
- Drought in Iowa, February 1 to 29, 20248 events
- Drought in Tennessee, February 1 to 29, 20248 events
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: 1166551, 1193462, 1166552.