A winter storm packing high winds and potentially several feet of snow is blowing into the Sierra Nevada
This image from a Caltrans traffic camera shows snow conditions on California SR-89 Snowman in Shasta-Trinity National Forest, Calif., Saturday, Dec. 10, 2022. A stretch of California Highway 89 was closed due to heavy snow between Tahoe City and South Lake Tahoe, Cali., the highway patrol said. Interstate 80 between Reno and Sacramento remained open but chains were required on tires for most vehicles. RENO, Nev.
“Travel will be very difficult to impossible with whiteout conditions,” the weather service said in Reno, where rain started falling Saturday.The U.S. Forest Service issued an avalanche warning for the backcountry in the mountains west of Lake Tahoe where it said"several feet of new snow and strong winds will result in dangerous avalanche conditions.”
About 10 inches of snow already had fallen at Mammoth Mountain ski resort south of Yosemite where more than 10 feet of snow has been recorded since early November.
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