White Christmas Expected For Sierra: More Widespread Rain, Heavy Snow Coming

SACRAMENTO (AP/CBS13) – Rain and snowfall showers fell connected Northern California connected Wednesday successful the archetypal question of a bedewed upwind signifier that is expected to dispersed passim the authorities and past done Christmas into adjacent week, forecasters said.

❄️ Heavy upland snowfall & gusty winds volition harvester for highly hard vacation travel. Mountain question volition beryllium hazardous, and is highly discouraged, with whiteout conditions imaginable astatine times. #CAwx #CAsnow

Forecast: https://t.co/WjKBsJmkq2

Roads: https://t.co/6jnhwJwcfC pic.twitter.com/oJdoGAcMZs

— NWS Sacramento (@NWSSacramento) December 22, 2021

Forecasters warned that vacation travel, particularly done precocious passes, would beryllium affected by aggregate rounds of rain, upland snowfall and gusty winds.

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Winter tempest warnings were scheduled to spell into effect successful sections of the Sierra Nevada arsenic aboriginal arsenic Wednesday day oregon by Thursday greeting and past done Sunday, the National Weather Service said.

Chain requirements were already successful effect for vehicles connected immoderate stretches of routes done the Sierra, according to the California Department of Transportation.

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Rainfall was airy to mean astir the San Francisco Bay Area and was dilatory spreading down the coast.

Here is simply a look astatine 24 hr rainfall totals crossed our area. Periods of wide rainfall and dense upland snowfall volition proceed done this week and into aboriginal adjacent week. Be prepared for slick roads successful the Valley and hazardous upland travel. #CAwx pic.twitter.com/2VPNfJyNZw

— NWS Sacramento (@NWSSacramento) December 22, 2021

Widespread rainfall wasn’t expected successful Southern California until Thursday. Forecasters said a flood ticker would beryllium successful effect Thursday evening done Friday greeting owed to imaginable excessive rainfall from an atmospheric stream pointed astatine the region.

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