In this picture supplied by Mammoth Mountain Ski Area, a snowboarder rides in Mammoth Lakes, Calif., Sunday, May 5, 2024.
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In this picture supplied by Mammoth Mountain Ski Area, a snowboarder rides in Mammoth Lakes, Calif., Sunday, May 5, 2024.
Peter Morning/AP
TRUCKEE, Calif. — A weekend spring storm that drenched the San Francisco Bay space and closed Northern California mountain highways additionally set a single-day snowfall document for the season on Sunday in the Sierra Nevada.
The moist climate system had largely moved out of the state by Sunday morning, but officers warned that roads would stay slick after round two ft (60 centimeters) of snow fell in some areas of the Sierra.
“Did anyone have the snowiest day of the 2023/2024 season being in May on their winter bingo card?” the University of California, Berkeley Central Sierra Snow Lab requested on the social platform X.
The 26.4 inches (67 centimeters) of snowfall on Sunday beat the second snowiest day of the season — March third — by 2.6 inches (6.6 centimeters), in response to the lab.
Treacherous driving situations on Saturday pressured the closure of a number of highways close to Lake Tahoe, together with Interstate 80 over the Donner Summit.
Flood advisories had been issued for elements of the Bay Area, the place as much as an inch (2.5 centimeters) of rain fell whereas temperatures dipped into the low 40s (round 5 levels Celsius), the National Weather Service mentioned. Wind gusts reaching 40 mph (64 kph) had been reported Saturday close to San Francisco.
The storm introduced mild rain and gusty winds to Southern California.
Drier and hotter situations had been anticipated all through the week.