More than 30,000 customers were without power in the Sacramento area at one point Saturday morning, but it was restored to all but a few hundred late in the day. The National Weather Service said in a statement that the storm's "impacts will be widespread from north to south with numerous winter weather-related advisories in effect." Snowfall totals in the Pacific Northwest, the Northern Rockies, the Great Basin and California would range from between 12 and 24 inches, the weather service said, with the Sierra Nevada seeing the "heaviest snowfall." This image from a Caltrans traffic camera shows snow conditions on California SR-89 Snowman in Shasta-Trinity National Forest, California, Dec. More than 250 miles of the Sierra remained under a winter storm warning at least until Sunday night or early Monday from north of Reno to south of Yosemite National Park.Īs much as 4 feet of snow is expected to fall by the end of the weekend in the upper elevations around Lake Tahoe, and as much as 6 feet in more remote parts of the Sierra to the north and south. The powerful storm system is expected to move east over the next several days, forecasters said. 01:59Ī winter storm packing powerful winds, heavy rain and potentially several feet of snow in the Sierra Nevada shut down mountain highways, toppled trees and triggered flood watches and avalanche warnings on Saturday from the coast of Northern California to Lake Tahoe. Millions of Americans under winter weather alerts as coast-to-coast storms coat U.S.
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