WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY
Warning Issue Date: 258 AM PST FRI NOV 27 2009
...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM THIS MORNING TO
10 PM PST THIS EVENING...
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SACRAMENTO HAS ISSUED A WINTER
WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SNOW AND ICE...WHICH IS IN EFFECT
FROM 10 AM THIS MORNING TO 10 PM PST THIS EVENING.
* SNOW AND RAIN WILL DEVELOP BY 10 AM ALONG INTERSTATE 80 AND
HIGHWAY 50. PRECIPITATION WILL BECOME HEAVY AT TIMES BY EARLY
AFTERNOON AND SHIFT FARTHER SOUTH INTO THE CARSON PASS AREA.
* SNOW LEVELS INITIALLY NEAR 5000 FEET WILL RISE TO 6000 TO 6500
FEET EARLY THIS AFTERNOON BEFORE THEY FALL BACK TO 4500 FEET
LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING.
* 4 TO 8 INCHES OF SNOW IS EXPECTED OVER DONNER SUMMIT AND ECHO
SUMMIT BY THIS EVENING. UP TO A FOOT OF SNOW MAY FALL OVER
CARSON PASS ALONG HIGHWAY 88 BY EARLY SATURDAY MORNING.
* IMPACTS: SNOW AND ICE ACCUMULATING ON ROADWAYS WILL CREATE SLICK
ROADS AND HAZARDOUS DRIVING CONDITIONS EARLY THIS AFTERNOON
THROUGH TONIGHT.
ALTHOUGH SNOW WILL TAPER OFF TO SCATTERED SNOW SHOWERS TONIGHT...GUSTY
EAST WINDS UP TO 50 MPH COULD CREATE HAZARDOUS CONDITIONS IN BLOWING
AND DRIFTING SNOW OVER MOUNTAIN PASSES SATURDAY.
$$
SG
|
|
|
