Hey everybody, ABC 10 meteorologist
Brendan Minchev here with an update on
this weekend's incoming winter storm.
Kind of deja vu, right?
We just had a winter storm today
for Friday, clear as can be.
We had a lot of fog this morning,
a lot of frost,
all that ice on the windshields,
but through this afternoon staying
dry with some sunshine as well.
But Speaking of the snow that we had,
snow totals are in and Sierra at Tahoe,
the big winner, 43 inches at Sierra Tahoe.
Sierra Snow Lab got about 20 inches,
21 inches Palisades Tahoe.
Kirkwood, about 20 inches in the Sugar Bowl,
about 18 inches.
So anywhere from about 1 1/2 to 2
feet of widespread across the Sierra,
with locally higher amounts of three to
almost 4 feet of snow with more to come.
So let's jump right into it,
and we'll start with the first
thing you're going to notice.
And maybe that's two things.
First, that pink color that
is a winter storm warning.
We've got a new one that will go into
effect tomorrow morning because of that
incoming snow in the Sierra and of course,
rain in the valley.
But the other thing you'll notice
are those low temperatures,
another cold start with
lows in the middle 30s.
So cold,
not quite as cold as we were to start
Friday morning with all that frost
and all that fog shouldn't be as
widespread tomorrow because we'll
actually have some more moisture coming in.
We'll have some of that early rain,
early snow moving on in as well and
you'll see that there with that 40% chance.
So starting the day cold 35
Sacramento 34 Elk Grove,
36 Stockton for your Saturday morning
33 in Modesto and middle to upper 30s.
In the foothills, about 16 to
start Saturday morning in Truckee.
So as we go through the daytime
tomorrow in the valley,
again, cold start in the 30s,
will be closer to 40 by 8 AM,
46 degrees at noon.
And that's kind of as close as to
as high temperature temperatures.
We'll see.
We'll kind of be bouncing in
between about 46 and 50 degrees
or so just depending on how much
sunshine we end up seeing.
Not expecting this to be a total washout,
even though you see all
those rain icons there.
Let's break it down a little more
with futurecast and talk about.
Why it's not looking like a
total washout for the weekend.
Here's for your Friday.
Some clouds.
Lots of sunshine though,
across especially the Sacramento Valley.
Here's Saturday at 5:00 in the
morning you see that winter
storm warning goes into effect,
and we do have the first bands
of rain starting to move into
our area this time though,
coming from the South instead
of coming from the north.
So this is 5:00 AM for Saturday morning.
Hopefully get to stay in bed,
sleep in a little bit,
don't have to worry about it,
but we'll see those first
rain bands move on through,
especially in the foothills and the valley.
Along and east of Interstate 5,
that's where that first rain will be.
So Sacramento, Stockton,
Modesto, all included in that.
Foothills, of course with
rain in the higher elevations.
Once we get into those lunchtime
hours after staying for the most
part mostly dry in the valley,
then we start to see some
more rain building in again.
Still from the South,
but now over spreading much of
the Sacramento Valley with maybe
a little clearing in the Stockton
area in the San Joaquin Valley.
Once we get into those afternoon hours.
More widespread rain,
more widespread snow across the
CR as well with snow levels.
Yeah, around 4045 hundred feet.
Once we get in towards Saturday night,
we see some clearing.
This is almost midnight on Sunday
Valley mostly dry at this point,
some cloud cover but that snow increasing
in strength and lingering as well.
So it really pretty much will be
snowing most of the day Saturday
and in towards Sunday as well.
More snow than rain,
more constant snow than than
constant rain in the valley.
Then we'll see this other rain band
move through overnight on Sunday.
So continuing with those on
and off rain chances.
Saturday into Sunday,
Snow continuing though in the Sierra
with that winter storm warning still
into effect as we get to Sunday morning,
maybe a little clearing north of
Interstate 80 in terms of snow
with more snow continuing South
of 80 in the Sierra clearing in
the valley for Sunday morning.
I know of course we've got
that marathon going on Sunday,
so if you're headed out there be aware
we are looking at showers in the area,
but it doesn't look like it will
necessarily rain all marathon long.
Better chance of rain as we
get towards the end of it.
So once we get towards lunchtime
11121 o'clock we see some more.
Rain moving on through,
and in fact there's enough instability
in the atmosphere that some of
these showers could actually
turn into some thunderstorms.
So if you hear a rumble of Thunder,
don't be surprised.
It is actually quite possible Sunday
afternoon through Sunday evening once
we get in towards Sunday evening.
A lot of this is clearing at this point.
Potentially still some showers,
maybe lingering thunderstorm or two
in the northern Sacramento Valley,
but even that snow starting to taper
off by the time we get to Sunday.
But then Monday morning for your
commute could see another batch.
Of rain showers and snow showers as well.
So kind of a longer duration event even
if we're not going to see constant rain,
constant snow kind of hit
and miss all day Saturday,
Sunday and continuing in
towards Monday morning as well.
So by the time we get to Monday evening,
this is model snowfall data.
This is the American model,
the GFS looking at around 2
feet of snow for
much of the Sierra from dawn or down
through Kirkwood Bear Valley as well
when we look at the European model
now for snow numbers slightly higher,
especially along and South of.
US 50, but more shadowing.
So if you're on the east side of the Crest,
we're seeing more shadowing.
That means less snow amounts
harder for that moisture to get
across the very tops of the Sierra.
So now we're looking at about 2
feet of snow as opposed or sorry,
a foot of snow as opposed to two
feet of snow on the eastern slope.
So there's some variation in exact totals,
but generally we will be seeing snow falling,
we'll be seeing snow sticking to the roads.
There will be travel delays,
travel issues at times throughout
the weekend.
So if you are planning on going
up to the Sierra.
So Saturday or Sunday,
Saturday morning should be
fine going up there.
It'll be Saturday afternoon,
Sunday morning,
Sunday afternoon that we see some of
those travel issues in the Sierra.
So looking at the 10 day forecast,
this is winter storm #2
moving through this weekend,
kind of lingering in towards Monday as well.
Then we start to dry out a little
bit with potentially another system
towards the end of this coming week.
So December off to a cold and rainy start,
but we will take the rain.
It's hard to complain when we get
moisture in Northern California.
Have a great day.
Honey,
be sure to stay with ABC 10 for the very
latest on this coming winter storm.