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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Snow in California in the summer, because Global Warming.
And they will take the midwest temps and use those to calculate the temp for all of the U.S.
There’s an old saying; Everybody talks about the weather but nothing can be done about it.
I’ve seen it snow in Meeker Park in July in the ‘70s, in Estes Park on the 4th of July in the ‘80s and I recall numerous days in January working construction in a T-shirt and sweating because temps were in the upper 60s.
The only normal weather is the fact that there is weather. ;-)
Been having snow (off and on) for the past week here in the mountains of southwest Montana. Snow isn’t unusual for September. It’s been the length of the cold/snowy weather (a week) that’s unusual this month.
“Down here in SoCal, we have some slight chill in the air and it is WELCOME!”
The buzzkiller in me says... Here come the Santa Anas!....
I know, I know. October and lately November usually brings a few heat waves. But this chill is wonderful.
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