Several feet of snow in the mountains of California gathered on Sunday afternoon and was still down, forecasters said.
Accuweather.com said Mammoth Mountain Ski Resort said it had received nine meters snow since Friday at its maximum altitude of 11,000 feet, and the level of 8,000 feet, which was 6.5 feet.
"The measurement in inches of snow, so last week: We broke the trend," the Los Angeles Times reported on its support MammothMountain @ Twitter page.
The Times said the snow in the areas of Mammoth and Lake Tahoe ski calls meteorologists warning of avalanche backcountry problem.
The 2.5-meter snow in many places had reached during the Sierra Nevada by 3.1 meters longer than expected by Monday evening, Accuweather.com said. It is still possible in some peaks over 6,000 meters, said weather service.
said "He will make an ideal base for skiing, especially just before the vacation," NWS meteorologist Edan Lindaman Reno.
Accuweather said snow could force the closure of passports for travelers. To make matters worse were gusting winds, the potential for whiteout conditions.
The snow storm was moving in Wyoming, Utah and Colorado on Sunday night and showed slides difficult for drivers. several inches of snow were expected in Minnesota on Monday in the time of the Vikings game in Chicago Bears, played outdoors at the University of Minnesota, the stadium, because the roof of the Metrodome has been a fall snow before.
Some roads in California are closing because of the possibility of avalanches, said the Times. U.S. 395 between the border of Nevada and Bridgeport was closed, and power lines were near the ski resort of Sugar Bowl, the National Weather Service office in Reno, Nevada, reports said.
In the lower elevations of California, it rained hard several inches in the forecast. According to the Times were broken on the date in Bakersfield and Fresno.
The rain fell along the coasts of Southern California, where buyers were San Fernando Valley on the border in the middle of the crisis of Christmas shopping.
"This Christmas, what a little rain," said Christine Fair, both located in the parking lot of San Diego in the gallery on Saturday. "Well, so much rain, but it's always Christmas."
The positive side of the storm was an event that was relatively mild. "This is a very warm storm in December, as the air masses from the subtropics, said meteorologist Michael Bingham NWS from Fresno (Calif.) Bee." There is not much cold air to the ".
Accuweather.com said Mammoth Mountain Ski Resort said it had received nine meters snow since Friday at its maximum altitude of 11,000 feet, and the level of 8,000 feet, which was 6.5 feet.
"The measurement in inches of snow, so last week: We broke the trend," the Los Angeles Times reported on its support MammothMountain @ Twitter page.
The Times said the snow in the areas of Mammoth and Lake Tahoe ski calls meteorologists warning of avalanche backcountry problem.
The 2.5-meter snow in many places had reached during the Sierra Nevada by 3.1 meters longer than expected by Monday evening, Accuweather.com said. It is still possible in some peaks over 6,000 meters, said weather service.
said "He will make an ideal base for skiing, especially just before the vacation," NWS meteorologist Edan Lindaman Reno.
Accuweather said snow could force the closure of passports for travelers. To make matters worse were gusting winds, the potential for whiteout conditions.
The snow storm was moving in Wyoming, Utah and Colorado on Sunday night and showed slides difficult for drivers. several inches of snow were expected in Minnesota on Monday in the time of the Vikings game in Chicago Bears, played outdoors at the University of Minnesota, the stadium, because the roof of the Metrodome has been a fall snow before.
Some roads in California are closing because of the possibility of avalanches, said the Times. U.S. 395 between the border of Nevada and Bridgeport was closed, and power lines were near the ski resort of Sugar Bowl, the National Weather Service office in Reno, Nevada, reports said.
In the lower elevations of California, it rained hard several inches in the forecast. According to the Times were broken on the date in Bakersfield and Fresno.
The rain fell along the coasts of Southern California, where buyers were San Fernando Valley on the border in the middle of the crisis of Christmas shopping.
"This Christmas, what a little rain," said Christine Fair, both located in the parking lot of San Diego in the gallery on Saturday. "Well, so much rain, but it's always Christmas."
The positive side of the storm was an event that was relatively mild. "This is a very warm storm in December, as the air masses from the subtropics, said meteorologist Michael Bingham NWS from Fresno (Calif.) Bee." There is not much cold air to the ".
