Week Of Cold, Rain, Heavy Snow In Store For NorCal Leading Up To Christmas

SACRAMENTO (AP/CBS13) – California is facing a stormy vacation week, with dense upland snowfall and wide rainfall elsewhere, forecasters said Monday.

Successive waves of precipitation moving into Northern California from Tuesday done Sunday day volition overgarment parts of the Sierra Nevada with 1 to 5 feet (0.3-1.5 meters) of snowfall and perchance up to 8 feet (2.4 meters) astatine immoderate higher elevations, the National Weather Service said.

Winter upwind returns to interior #NorCal starting Tuesday and volition apt instrumentality astir thru astatine slightest adjacent weekend. Expect important vacation question impacts starting Wednesday, arsenic hazardous upland question conditions are forecast. Plan for delays and concatenation controls! #CAwx pic.twitter.com/zR3N3COEK8

— NWS Sacramento (@NWSSacramento) December 19, 2021

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Forecasters said the storms volition bring the imaginable for important low-elevation snow, including implicit Interstate 5 northbound of Redding, an country wherever past week’s storms unopen down the road for astir 24 hours.

Little interruption successful snowfall is expected aft Tuesday, and large question difficulties are anticipated the mountains, the upwind work said.

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“Gusty winds volition further trim visibilities during this lawsuit with section whiteout conditions possible,” forecasters said. “Holiday travelers should hole for wintertime driving conditions by packing chains, lukewarm wintertime clothes, and other nutrient and water.”

The bedewed upwind signifier volition statesman to impact Southern California Tuesday nighttime and bring rainfall and high-elevation snowfall done Thursday, followed by unsettled and showery upwind done the weekend.

A bid of storms volition bring important snowfall and marque question hard if not intolerable successful the Sierra astatine times arsenic we caput into Christmas weekend. Those surviving successful the mountains should banal up with other nutrient truthful we don't person immoderate Donner Party similar stories successful a fewer weeks. #CAwx pic.twitter.com/50D9AKIPrj

— NWS Sacramento (@NWSSacramento) December 20, 2021

The Los Angeles upwind bureau said h2o vapor imagery implicit the Pacific shows an atmospheric stream processing arsenic moisture streams from an country eastbound of Hawaii.

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