This Donner Party is on! The AP reports that parts of the Sierra Nevada range of Northern California are looking at as much as 10 feet in accumulations of snow this weekend and that, per the National Weather Service in Reno the “safe travel window is over in the Sierra,” and “Best to hunker down where you are.” At least one Lake Tahoe-area ski resort is closed down because of too many flakes.
“This will be a legitimate blizzard,” UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain said Thursday. “Really true blizzard conditions with multiple feet of snow and very strong winds, the potential for power outages and the fact that roads probably aren’t going to be cleared as quickly or as effectively as they normally would be even during a significant winter storm.”