In addition to soaking the San Francisco Bay region and closing mountain roadways in Northern California, a weekend spring storm that shuttered roads in the Sierra Nevada on Sunday established a season record for the most snowfall in one day.
By Sunday morning, the wet weather system had mostly left the state, but authorities cautioned that the roads would still be treacherous due to the two feet (60 cm) of snow that had fallen in certain parts of the Sierra.
A question posted on the social media site X by the University of California, Berkeley Central Sierra Snow Lab read, “Did anyone have the snowiest day of the 2023/2024 season being in May on their winter bingo card?”
The lab reports that Sunday’s 26.4 inches (67 centimeters) of snowfall beat the season’s second-snowiest day, March 3, by 2.6 inches (6.6 centimeters).
Numerous roads close to Lake Tahoe were closed on Saturday due to hazardous driving conditions, including Interstate 80 over the Donner Summit.
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The National Weather Service reported that flooding advisories were in effect for certain areas of the Bay Area, where temperatures dropped to the low 40s (about 5 degrees Celsius) and up to an inch (2.5 cm) of rain fell. On Saturday, there were reports of wind gusts as high as 40 mph (64 kph) close to San Francisco.
Southern California saw gusty winds and light rain during the storm. Over the course of the week, warmer and drier weather was predicted.
