Northern California hit by more rain and snow
It’s already late May. But parts of Northern California got another blast of rain and snow this weekend, helping the state’s drought relief efforts.
A spring storm dropped rain in parts of Northern California on Saturday afternoon, but it was less severe than the one a day earlier that dumped up to 13 inches of snow on a Sierra Nevada highway and hit the Sacramento area lightning, winds gusting to 40 mph and dime-sized hail.
Meanwhile, traffic was snarled on Interstate 80 in the northern Sierra Nevada for hours as crews plowed as much as a foot of snow and dealt with dozens of spinouts and minor crashes.
The forecast called for more rain and mountain snow on Sunday and Monday due to unstable air as rising, sun-warmed currents hit a trough of cooler air.
The Sierra Nevada near I-80 could see several more inches of snow from small storms “popping up here and there,” said Brooke Bingaman, a forecaster with the National Weather Service in Sacramento.
“Even if they’re kind of quick-moving, sometimes they can really dump all of a sudden,” Bingaman said.
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