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A dangerous winter storm is slamming Northern California with rare blizzard conditions and fierce winds as it threatens to unload up to 10 feet of snow in the mountains and snarl travel.
In a sign of the potential power of the storm, the National Weather Service issued a blizzard warning for some L.A. and Ventura county mountains through Thursday, forecasting "heavy snow with ...
Major ski areas were closed from Lake Tahoe to Mammoth as a blizzard hit California's Sierra Nevada with heavy snow and high winds. Blizzard hits California mountains with heavy snow and high ...
The etymology of the word sundowner is uncertain, but it may derive from the Spanish term zonda, or from the Arabic simoom, which are both similar wind phenomena. [5] It is also typically the case that sundowner winds commence in the evening near sunset, when onshore sea breezes abate and offshore flows such as the sundowners pick up.
Meteorologists predict as much as 10 feet (3 meters) of snow is possible in the mountains around Lake Tahoe by the weekend, with 3 to 6 feet (0.9 to 1.8 meters) in the communities on the lake’s ...
The Santa Anas are katabatic winds (Greek for "flowing downhill") arising in higher altitudes and blowing down towards sea level. [7] The National Weather Service defines Santa Ana winds as "a weather condition [in southern California] in which strong, hot, dust-bearing winds descend to the Pacific Coast around Los Angeles from inland desert regions".
Blizzard conditions continued to slam Northern California over the weekend with damaging winds and heavy snow dumping on mountain ridges down to the valleys.
Golden Gate Bridge in fog Snow in the mountains of Southern California Summer in the Sierra Nevada at Lake Tahoe High precipitation in 2005 caused an ephemeral lake in the Badwater Basin of Death Valley. The climate of California varies widely from hot desert to alpine tundra, depending on latitude, elevation, and proximity to the Pacific Coast.