I-80 California Daily Snow

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By Bryan Allegretto, Forecaster Posted 3 years ago April 19, 2021

Afternoon Showers Possible Tuesday, A Stronger Storm Possible Sunday...

Summary

We could see a few afternoon showers Tuesday & Wednesday. Keeping an eye on a storm that could bring snow Sunday into next Monday.

Update

Afternoon Showers:

We could see a few afternoon showers pop up Tuesday and Wednesday afternoon, but not expecting any travel issues with snow levels mainly staying above the pass levels, except for over Mt. Rose. Only expecting wet roads if we see any showers.

Dry Again:

Expecting drier weather again for Thursday through Saturday.

Storm Possible:

We are tracking a storm headed towards CA for Sunday into next Monday. If the trends with the forecasted track for this system continue we could see some accumulating snow in the Sierra Sunday into next Monday. Stay tuned as we get closer and fine-tune the details.

BA

Snow Level Forecast

I-80 Road Cams:

Crystal Springs, Exit 148 - 3,868'

Blue Canyon, Exit 154 - 5,022'

Kingvale, Exit 171 - 6,095'

Soda Springs, Exit 174 - 6,768'

Donner Summit, Exit 176 - 7,165'

Donner Lake, Exit 180 - 6,394'

Truckee, Exit 185 - 5,898'

Truckee Scales, Exit 191 - 5,826'

Floriston, Exit 199 - 5,291'

NV State Line, Exit 1 - 4,800'

If you are traveling through the Sierra please use the links below for travel advisories as we do not give our opinions for the "safest" or "best" travel times for liability reasons.

NWS Reno: https://www.weather.gov/rev/
NWS Sacramento: https://www.weather.gov/sto/
CA road conditions: http://www.dot.ca.gov/cgi-b... (and 1-800-427-7623)
NV road conditions: https://nvroads.com/
OSS weather share: http://oss.weathershare.org/#

About Our Forecaster

Bryan Allegretto

Forecaster

Bryan Allegretto has been writing insightful posts about snow storms for over the last 15 years and is known as Tahoe's go-to snow forecaster. BA grew up in south Jersey, surfing, snowboarding, and chasing down the storms creating the epic conditions for both.

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