Sierra Nevada Gets a Whiteout Christmas With More to Come

[discocrisco01]

Source: CBS San Francisco

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS/AP) — Parts of California are getting a White Christmas after all, with snowfall pounding mountains across the state.

Other areas of California, however, saw a wet and rainy Christmas as storms continue to drench the state, causing flash flooding and evacuations in some areas over the holiday period.

A 70-mile stretch of interstate over the top of the Sierra Nevada was closed Saturday when a storm that dropped nearly 2 feet of snow on some ski resorts around Lake Tahoe overnight got a second wind.

Interstate 80 connecting Reno to Sacramento over the Sierra was closed in both directions due to poor visibility from the Nevada-California state line to Colfax, California

Read more: https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2021/12/26/sierra-blizzard-shuts-interstate-80-from-colfax-to-nevada/

[question everything]

1. I hope that this is welcomed. All along the Pacific Coast after all the fires

[RandPaulsNeighbor]

2. Very Welcomed here, Weed, CA

Shasta Lake was under 10% capacity this past summer.

[pfitz59]

12. "Trinity Smokes Weed"

Headline every time my high school team beat Weed. Shasta-Cascade needs as much snow as it can get.

[MarineCombatEngineer]

15. I travel through Weed, CA frequently,

I'm amazed at how low Shasta Lake is when I cross the bridge spanning lake.

There's a little truck stop about 20 miles north of Redding with a gas station and little restaurant that I will sometimes stop at for the night.

Glad I'm home in AZ for the holidays, don't like driving a big rig in the snow and ice and putting on chains is a big pain in the ass!!!

[Hortensis]

4. Snowpack in the Sierras is welcome. It'll hopefully melt slowly

over months, as it's supposed to. When we lived down there, the snow almost never entirely melted.

Our daughter and her family are in Tahoe now, and she's been sending us pictures of the snow collecting around their place. Overnight their rental jeep became an unrecognizable bulge in the snow.

[Dirtdude]

13. Nervous about 1997 repeat

Hints of N atmospheric river setting up after the New Year. Rain on snow potential.

[Hortensis]

14. Oh, man, Dirtdude. Sure hope no AR rain at all.

Your name sounds rather evocative in this context. In 2005, far to the south on the coast, in La Conchita, one of those caused a mountainside to come down on a nice old neighborhood I'd visited.

[rollin74]

3. finally a good winter storm

about six inches of snow fell yesterday/last night where I’m at in Reno. Several feet of fresh snow in the mountains

sucks for commuters. I-80 has been closed at Donner Pass for over 24 hours

despite any travel frustration, a storm like this was badly needed

[BlueKentuckyGirl]

7. Reno!!

I'm in Reno, too! Was very happy to get the snow. Means water in the streams next summer when hiking weather arrives! Must have gotten about 4-6 inches at my house and I'm pretty much at the valley floor!

[inthewind21]

16. Far North Reno

Just off the CA border at 5,025 elevation. I'm buried! And it's snowing again as I type!

[MyMission]

5. FYI - Sierra Nevada is in NC too

And it's sunny and 65 here. They moved here in the past decade, for east coast distribution and for our water. They've got a great restaurant here too.

[AllaN01Bear]

6. i live in the sierra nevada foothills east of san fransisco at an elevation of 1800 ft.

we got a light snowfall at 0255 am this morning and back into rain.snowed higer up 2000 ft or more . more to come and freeze warning for us tonite .

[Retrograde]

8. There's a reason it's called the Sierra Nevada

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or the Snowy Mountain Range - in a good year you can see the snow on the higher peaks from the Central Valley, over 100 miles away.

BTW, the stretch where it's usually closed is called Donner Pass or Donner Summit - yes, that Donner party!

[DENVERPOPS]

9. I wish they would send some of it to Colorado

If we don't get some huge snows soon, next spring and summer Colorado will be the wildland fire capital of the entire U.S.

And everyone in Phoenix, Las Vegas, and Southern California had better be praying for snow in the Colorado mountains also........

[DownriverDem]

10. I wish it would come

to SE Michigan.

[Polybius]

11. Everyone likes snow on Christmas

And if they tell you no, they're lying.