Wednesday, February 29, 2012

California snowstorm

  • Officials are issuing avalanche warnings as the biggest California storm of a dry winter season continues to hammer the northern Sierra.
  • (San Francisco Gate)
  • Late winter storms forced school and road closures from Seattle to upstate New York, but the snow was welcomed in California as it suffers through one of the driest winters in history.
  • (Washington Post)
  • Motorists were urged to avoid the area, as no detours were available. Southbound I-5 is not an option for transit to California as it is closed due to extreme weather conditions as well, ODOT advised late Tuesday night.
  • (KTVZ.com)
  • GORMAN, Calif. (KABC) -- The California Highway Patrol is bracing for another snow storm, and they want drivers to be ready for it. They say they are expecting it to blow in Wednesday, and it could cause as many problems for drivers as the last storm.
  • (Abc Local Web)
  • A storm that brought snow to the mountains in California to start the week will spread a swath of accumulating snow to portions of the Upper Midwest during the middle of the week.
  • (AccuWeather.com)
  • The climate of Italy bears a resemblance to that of Northern California. Rome is at roughly the same latitude as Crescent City, California. Classified as Mediterranean climate, both locations typically experience relatively mild year-round conditions.
  • (Examiner)
  • This will be the first snow storm in quite some time for what has been a quite renewing some much-needed rain and high elevation snow as far down as Northern California.
  • (Miami Herald)
  • team alumni or riders the team competed against in the Southern California Collegiate Snowsports Conference. Kyo Kaji, a senior recreation and leisure studies major, said he was stoked to compete in the event.
  • (Daily 49er)
  • A week later, in California's Sierra Nevada mountain range, where annual precipitation levels are expected to decline as the climate changes, a snowstorm delights skiers.
  • (New York Times)
  • Ermalita worked as a Maitra dee at the California Theatre while a student and later at she is well-known as the woman negotiating a snow-filled Dunsmuir Avenue during the record snowstorm of 1951.
  • (Mount Shasta Herald)

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