Rare May winter weather warning issued for California

As spring blooms throughout a lot of California, mountainous regions in the state’s northern region have been plunged back into winter season weather conditions in excess of the weekend.

Some 31 inches of snow fell down around the major of Mount Lassen among Saturday and Sunday, according to the Sacramento department of the Nationwide Temperature Assistance (NWS). Footage shared on social media displays motor vehicles driving cautiously on the snowy streets of Nevada County, California, after a late-period storm triggered spinouts and collisions on Interstate 80 and compelled a stretch of the highway to shut down for many hours on Saturday.

All over 8:45 p.m. on Saturday night, eastbound traffic on the freeway was produced with chain controls in area from Alta to the Nevada condition line, as noted by CBS News. Westbound traffic was introduced in Truckee a minor afterwards, by 11 p.m., also with chain controls. The interstate was closed from Truckee to the point out line.

On Sunday early morning, the freeway was reopened without having chain limitations, as temperature forecasts say the location can anticipate spring-like weather this week.

Snow also fell in aspect of Sacramento County above the weekend. Footage by the Folsom Police Office shared on social media exhibits a police pet dog operating in the snow in Folsom, California.

The Palisades Tahoe ski vacation resort wrote on X, formerly Twitter, that the venue recorded 26 inches of snow in 24 several hours. The workforce explained the previous weekend as “one particular of the finest Could powder days in modern memory.”

Elevations higher than 5000′ alongside the Sierra had been underneath a wintertime storm warning among Saturday early morning and Sunday early morning, although the NWS urged motorists on Monday to continue to workout warning at the wheel as the streets will remain slick all over the day.

The location was also strike by constant rain around the weekend. Many metropolitan areas in Northern California noticed a report sum of rainfall on May 4, according to the NWS. Redding, in Shasta County, acquired 1.47 inches of rain—the highest quantity due to the fact May possibly 4, 1951. Stockton, in San Joaquin County, acquired a record 50 %-inch on Saturday—another report, in accordance to the Sacramento Bee.

Modesto, in Stanislaus County, been given more than a few-quarters of an inch of rain on Saturday, breaking a file set in Might 1932. Two-thirds of an inch fell in downtown Sacramento, according to the newspaper.

A lot more negative temperature is expected in Northern California currently, with the NWS Temperature Prediction Center warning that showers and thunderstorms more than the Pacific Northwest will go eastward to the Northern Intermountain Region and into Central California by late Monday afternoon.

The temperature will make improvements to on Tuesday morning, even though showers and thunderstorms will move southeastward to the Southern Plains and Southern Rockies, “linking up with the front and extending westward more than the Ohio Valley by Tuesday afternoon,” the NWS stated.