Cold Front Brings Snow, Rain To NorCal: Downtown Sacramento Finally Breaks 212-Day Dry Streak

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October 18, 2021 astatine 11:03 am

SACRAMENTO (AP/CBS13) — Downtown Sacramento’s streak of adust upwind has yet been broken.

A acold beforehand passing done drought-stricken Northern California brought snowfall to the bluish Sierra Nevada and rain, showers and drizzle elsewhere.

The Sierra snowfall was important capable to interaction question implicit the higher passes, the National Weather Service said.

All concatenation controls person been dropped.

That was a beauteous chaotic thrust for the archetypal existent tempest of the year.

This photograph was taken astatine 3:38 americium and astatine that clip we had picked up 10” of snowfall astatine Soda Springs and I-80. Not to bad. pic.twitter.com/z3O6zmWVZP

— CHP Truckee (@CHP_Truckee) October 18, 2021

Caltrans reported that Ebbets Pass connected State Route 4, Monitor Pass connected State Route 89 and Sonora Pass connected State Route 108 were closed by inclement weather. Chain controls were activated connected a conception of Interstate 80.

By precocious Monday morning, the concatenation controls were dropped.

Measurable precipitation – 0.01 inch (0.03 centimeter) – Sunday evening successful downtown Sacramento ended 212 consecutive days of nary rainfall astatine that location, the upwind work said.

The debased unit strategy that produced the precipitation was moving rapidly toward the Great Basin.

The adjacent circular of rainfall successful Northern California is expected to get Tuesday evening, followed by a “cavalcade of rainfall chances” successful the mid-to-long-term forecast, the San Francisco Bay Area upwind bureau said.

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