Posted on 09/21/2017 8:52:34 PM PDT by aquila48
now fell in Sierra Nevada on the last day of summer, giving the towering mountain range shared by California and Nevada a wintry look in September and making travel hazardous.
Sixteen vehicles crashed on Interstate 80 as snow and hail fell Thursday, killing a man driving a pickup truck and causing minor injuries to a few other people, said California Highway Patrol Officer Chris Nave.
Snow dusted peaks in Yosemite National Park and temporarily closed Tioga Pass road, the soaring eastern entry to the park that typically doesn’t become impassable until mid-November.
Several inches of snow were expected at elevations of at least 6,000 feet in the northern Sierra, said National Weather Service forecaster Hannah Chandler in Sacramento.
“The last days of summer,” the Placer County Sheriff’s Office wryly tweeted in a post showing snow falling on patrol vehicles at its Lake Tahoe station.
Sugar Bowl, a ski resort perched atop Donner Summit, received a good snow dusting that’s getting skiers excited about the upcoming ski season, said resort spokesman Jon Slaughter.
“We’ve got people calling about season passes and checking our webcams to take a look at the first snow,” Slaughter said.
Slaughter, however, didn’t anticipate the storm having much of an effect on how early the resort can open because the snow will likely melt.
But the first snow of the season came just four months after Sugar Bowl’s last ski season ended with nearly 800 inches of snowfall, part of a very wet winter that gave California at least a temporary respite from years of drought that left the Sierra with scant snowcaps.
At Oroville Dam, where crews are rushing to repair two badly damaged spillways before California’s winter rainy season starts in earnest, dam operators were keeping an eye on forecasts.
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Correction — too much global warming fell on those slopes.
Everybody remember, global warming also is to blame for early wintry weather.
Beautiful picture——I loooove winter.
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When Cali is hit by Common Sense, I’ll be impressed.
It’s going to be 90 in the Twin Cities tomorrow.
Go figure...
76 degrees in the CO Rocky Mountains today.
Not really unusual but neither would snow and hail be unusual.
Global warming fell in droves.
And it’s in the 80’s here in Northeast Ohio for the next week. Life and the climate are good.
Might snow in Grand Lake area Sunday Monday and cold.
But it is that time of year.
It rained here in Glendale/Los Angeles today.
I’m not sure what is just ahead this Fall and Winter, but I’d laugh my ass off if it turned out to be another year like last year.
Now that reservoirs are closer to being filled, it might be pretty hard to handle another wet winter something like last year.
Let the airhead Leftists explain that one.
If we get another 800 inches of snowpack this year, it will be an amazing amount of water combined over the two years.
I’d be surprised if it didn’t set a record.
Good!
I lived in this general part of California described in the article for years, and I can tell you, the weather has actually cooled down quite a bit from the 1990s. Back then, in the central valley, a month of days from 105-110 degrees was not unusual in July or August. Now, you might see a few days in that range. Also, it hasn’t been unusual in the Sierra Nevadas to see snowfalls as early as October and as late as May for the last ten years or more. I always carried chains going from Sacramento to Reno because you just never knew.
Global warming! Global warming! Climate change!
IT DID WHAT, WHERE? Can’t be. My environmental wacko friends told me that it never snows in California in summer.
I’m flummoxed, confused, and freezing. Excuse me while I go get a sweater or coat or turn on the heat.
Isn’t that pretty?!
Down here in SoCal, we have some slight chill in the air and it is WELCOME!
#13. With all that extra water, don’t you think it is time that some of L.A’s denizens take a bath or shower after years of saving water by not doing that.
We had 80s for two weeks in North Texas while all the hurricanes were fussing about in South Texas. Plus 37% humidity. Two weeks. I felt guilty for enjoying it.
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