Sierra Nevada records snowiest day of the season from brief but potent California storm

TRUCKEE, Calif. (AP) — A weekend spring storm that drenched the San Francisco Bay space and closed Northern California mountain highways additionally set a single-day snowfall document for the season on Sunday within the Sierra Nevada.

The moist climate system had largely moved out of the state by Sunday morning, however officers warned that roads would stay slick after round two ft (60 centimeters) of snow fell in some areas of the Sierra.

“Did anybody have the snowiest day of the 2023/2024 season being in Might on their winter bingo card?” the College of California, Berkeley Central Sierra Snow Lab requested on the social platform X.

The 26.4 inches (67 centimeters) of snowfall on Sunday beat the second snowiest day of the season — March third — by 2.6 inches (6.6 centimeters), based on the lab.

Treacherous driving situations on Saturday pressured the closure of a number of highways close to Lake Tahoe, together with Interstate 80 over the Donner Summit.

Flood advisories had been issued for elements of the Bay Space, the place as much as an inch (2.5 centimeters) of rain fell whereas temperatures dipped into the low 40s (round 5 levels Celsius), the Nationwide Climate Service mentioned. Wind gusts reaching 40 mph (64 kph) had been reported Saturday close to San Francisco.

The storm introduced mild rain and gusty winds to Southern California.

Drier and hotter situations had been anticipated all through the week.