Ski and snowboard fans may have to make plans to stay inside over the Presidents Day three-day weekend instead of taking to the slopes as state officials warn there is too much snow to be cleared making mountain roads dangerous.
Mammoth Mountain, a popular ski resort, is just 5 inches short of 30-year snowfall record for February.
The Daily Mail reported:
The storm was expected to dump between 3 and 6 feet (1 to 2 meters) of fresh snow in a region where some ski resorts reported getting 3 feet (1 meter) since Thursday. Officials warned of avalanches in the greater Lake Tahoe Area, where heavy snow and high winds were expected through Sunday.
Chains were required for travel in many other parts of the towering Sierra Nevada.
“All avid skiers are itching to get out on the mountain, but the roads are pretty treacherous right now,” Kevin Cooper, marketing director for Lake Tahoe TV, said in the Mail report.
“State Route 267 is so deep that plows can no longer plow. They have ordered up a large blower to try and clear the pass,” Placer County sheriff’s Lt. Andrew Scott said in a tweet with a video.
⚠️ Current view along EB I80 just before Applegate: traffic at a complete standstill. Please stay home and avoid traveling to the Sierra unless you absolutely have to. ❄️ ❄️ pic.twitter.com/G30h1C2N6T
— Placer Sheriff (@PlacerSheriff) February 17, 2019
“The storms heavily damaged – and in some places destroyed – parts of roads leading to Idyllwild and other mountain communities about 100 miles (161 kilometers) east of Los Angeles, but access was not cut off,” according to the Mail.
“We’re discouraging tourism and snow play up there this weekend,” California Department of Transportation spokeswoman Terri Kasinga said.
Weather forecasters are predicting snow storms in northern Arizona this weekend. And in some parts of Colorado, Montana, and Wyoming, road crews are clearing avalanches that closed highways and doing operations to prevent more slides.
The Union of Concerned Scientists has a white paper on its website that warns the western United States will suffer drought and reduced snowpack, even as strong snowstorms hit in the northwest U.S. and above-normal rainfall measurements in southern California have been recorded so far this year.
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Snow is now bad ? Snow is now caused by global warming ? Snow is bad
because it’s white .
Didn’t they want water in California ?
The Weather Channel started to give names to winter weather events, just like hurricanes. There’s 26 letters in the alphabet, so you can bet there’s gonna be two dozen winter “storms” . Drama queens.
Clearly another indicator of AGW, er Climate Change, and the “climate scientists” will be telling us that this was all predicted in their models. And hope we don’t remember them telling us that we’d soon no longer know what snow is (as I look out my window here in Colorado as more snow falls).
You are right Steve, climate alarmists actually believe that the ‘almost’ record snow in 30 years would NOT have occurred but for global warming.
They will not accept evidence or empirical data that exposes their hypocrisy and religious zeal. Hot, cold, dry, wet, snowy, drought affected, windy, calm etc are only occurring because of climate change. That similar or more severe weather events have previously been recorded, will only engender a response along the lines that these events are now more frequent (despite evidence to the contrary) or a nonsensical statement that a particular event has never happened during that particular week of the year!
Here in our Australian summer every hot day is now described by the media as ‘severe’ or ‘extreme’ even when the temperature is within the average range for this time of year.
The Union of Concerned Crack-Pots(Scientists) and the usial bunch of Nit-Wits in California urge people to stay home becasue there is TOO MUCH SNOW Last Week part of I-5 was closed becasue of too much Snow I guess these officials must be from the usial buracricy that has left the golden state in such a mess especialy our forests