Periods of mountain snow with a valley rain and snow mix will continued through the holiday weekend with this second of two impactful late season storms. This system brought travel regional impacts especially over Sierra mountain passes.
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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 REV wrote it up.
Periods of mountain snow with a valley rain and snow mix will continued through the holiday weekend with this second of two impactful late season storms. This system brought travel regional impacts especially over Sierra mountain passes. The low pressure system that rotated cyclonically just off-shore the central CA coast enabled a south-southwest upper flow to tap into a thick layer of Pacific moisture that spread north and northeast into the Sierra and western NV.
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 Mar 29, 1:51 AM PST, 5 hours 9 minutes earlier.
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</html>The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
2 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.
The public located 1.0 mi SSW of Northstar Ski Base , CA, CoCoRAHS Station CA-ED-9 located 0.5 mi S of Tahoma, CA, and the Central Sierra Snow Lab located 6.0 mi W of Truckee, CA, reported 24 hour snowfall amounts of 14.0 inches, 12.3 inches, and 9.8 inches respectively.
The public located at the Mammoth Mountain Ski Summit, CA, and the June Lake Ski Base, CA, Main Lodge, reported a 24 hour snowfall amounts of 24.0 inches and 13.0 inches respectively.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in California in 2024Every state in 2024This day in weather historyWarnings in California, March 2024
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: 1184961, 1184962.