On Saturday, the statewide snowpack was at 190% of normal for this time of year.īy Saturday afternoon, sections of Interstate 80 were closed eastbound near Colfax in the foothills and westbound outside of Truckee near Donner Pass. That would add significantly to the area’s three-decade-high snowpack this winter. In the Sierra Nevada Mountains, a heavy storm was expected to dump up to 3 to 5 feet of snow in the Tahoe area. Looking ahead to early next week, forecasters are monitoring the chances of more rain and snow and overnight temperatures dropping below freezing in many inland areas. Weekend rainfall totals, meanwhile, were forecast to reach about a half-inch for most of the Bay Area and up to 1.75 inches in the mountains along the coast and in the North Bay.Įxperts said the storm was driven by the latest blast of unstable air, the same phenomenon that has sent storm after storm over the Bay Area since the beginning of the year. Still, the North Bay could see up to 10 inches of snow this weekend, while other areas could see 2 to 5 inches. “This isn’t nearly the kind of system that we saw last week,” King said. 24 blanketed many lower-elevation parts of the region with t he most significant snowfall since 2011. 🔊 🔊 /TNXNbhRMqDĭespite the warnings, King said forecasters aren’t expecting the same level of snowfall that on Feb. Then the hailstorm over the San Mateo County Coastline. Hey we had lightning⚡️with an immediate thunderous roar instantly. A second front was expected to arrive by Sunday morning, ushering in up to 60 mph wind gusts and snow at elevations as low as 1,500 feet in parts of the North Bay and 2,000 feet in much of the East Bay and South Bay. On Saturday, a brief spell of scattered thunder, lightning and pea-sized hail passed over the region from the East Bay to the Peninsula and up to the Sonoma Coast.
“This active weather pattern that we’re seeing is not going away - winter is not done with us,” said David King a meteorologist with the National Weather Service Bay Area. And, yes, a winter weather advisory with more snow forecast Sunday in the east foothills and mountains from the North Bay into Santa Clara County. One of the wildest winters in years added a new jolt of excitement to the Bay Area this weekend: thunderstorms.
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