A potent warm Cat. 4 atmospheric river crashed into the Sierra Tuesday, whipping up hurricane force wind gusts, triggering whiteout blizzard conditions and an avalanche warning for the Tahoe area.
TRUCKEE -- A potent warm Cat. 4 atmospheric iver crashed into the Sierra Tuesday, whipping up hurricane force wind gusts, triggering whiteout blizzard conditions and an avalanche warning for the Tahoe area.
According to the researchers at UC's Sierra Snow Lab, temperatures were too warm at the higher elevations to produce snow on the overnight hours. "Windy with a mix of rain and snow this morning, primarily rain," they wrote on twitter."We had 2.8" of new soggy wet slush at the 8 a.m. measurement this morning. We're expecting a transition to snow sometime over the next several hours."
Even as they posted their observation, conditions were already starting to change as hurricane force winds began ripping through the ski runs at Palisades Tahoe."Sierra ridgetop winds have recorded gusts of 100-120 mph so far this morning," weather service forecasters in Reno said."Snow levels will lower through the morning with the colder phase of the storm moving in.
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