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February 2023 CA Storm
TJS23:
An extremely cold storm system will be hitting California over the next few days with snow levels extremely low. For only the 2nd time ever a blizzard warning has been issued for Los Angeles County. Presumably we will be seeing some historic closures. Currently as of Wednesday night 58 is closed due to snow. 101 in Northern California was closed earlier in the day briefly, and I've noticed chains required in some unique places all day like 74 leaving the Coachella Valley and 49 near Oakdale. There are CMS signs saying I-40 is closed at Flagstaff even in Victorville which is funny to me because whenever 395 is closed the CMS never says it on 14. Let's keep track here of all the interesting closures and chain requirements!
Max Rockatansky:
According to my wife it snowed slightly on CA 180 in Fresno. The news seems to be backing her up that it wasn’t soft hail:
https://abc30.com/snowy-weather-fresno-county-winter-storm-hail-falling/12863386/
Techknow:
You might want to double check your thread title, I don't recall a significant storm last February!
Anyway, I expect closures where there is snow in the Bay Area, at least on non-major highways. Back in 2018/2019, Mt. Hamilton saw snow and enough people were going there to see the snow that Caltrans closed CA 130 in Mt. Hamilton. Actually according to Caltrans, CA 130 is already closed to snow! I don't expect CA 17 to close, it's a major highway between San Jose, Santa Cruz and the mountain communities there.
There's a small chance that snow could fall on San Francisco, specifically on the highest peaks, Mt. Davidson and Twin Peaks (~940 ft and 922 ft elevation respectively.) There has not been snow in the city since the 70s so that's interesting to see if it will happen
Amaury:
I don't live in California, but did we go back in time?
TJS23:
Repost cause I messed the years up
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An extremely cold storm system will be hitting California over the next few days with snow levels extremely low. For only the 2nd time ever a blizzard warning has been issued for Los Angeles County. Presumably we will be seeing some historic closures. Currently as of Wednesday night 58 is closed due to snow. 101 in Northern California was closed earlier in the day briefly, and I've noticed chains required in some unique places all day like 74 leaving the Coachella Valley and 49 near Oakdale. There are CMS signs saying I-40 is closed at Flagstaff even in Victorville which is funny to me because whenever 395 is closed the CMS never says it on 14. Let's keep track here of all the interesting closures and chain requirements! Forgot to mention I-15 was closed this morning at Baker and Primm due to ice at Mountain Pass, open now
Max R said: According to my wife it snowed slightly on CA 180 in Fresno. The news seems to be backing her up that it wasn’t soft hail:
https://abc30.com/snowy-weather-fresno-county-winter-storm-hail-falling/12863386/
Techknow said: Anyway, I expect closures where there is snow in the Bay Area, at least on non-major highways. Back in 2018/2019, Mt. Hamilton saw snow and enough people were going there to see the snow that Caltrans closed CA 130 in Mt. Hamilton. Actually according to Caltrans, CA 130 is already closed to snow! I don't expect CA 17 to close, it's a major highway between San Jose, Santa Cruz and the mountain communities there.
There's a small chance that snow could fall on San Francisco, specifically on the highest peaks, Mt. Davidson and Twin Peaks (~940 ft and 922 ft elevation respectively.) There has not been snow in the city since the 70s so that's interesting to see if it will happen
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