The republican nomination and more than a third democratic nomination. Now heres mike algers first look at the pinpoint 2 forecast while it may take until the end of the weekend, there are some signs that a more active storm pattern will return to the region. In the short term, the west coast ridge of High Pressure will continue to keep us warm and dry, nudging storms too far to the north to give us much chance of getting any water out of them. High temperatures will rise to near 70 degrees tuesday and wednesday before falling back to the low 60s on thursday. Late saturday, the ridge finally of what could be several storms to move into the region, with valley rain a decent possibility, but mountain rain and snow almost a sure bet on sunday. Thanks mike. Local workers staged a protest today out at the Tesla Gigafactory site east of reno. Organizers say about 300 protesters walked off the build site. In protest of the Company Hiring employees from outside of nevada. Russell we would have
Valley over the weekend. Firefighters responded to the ski resort just after 130 on saturday afternoon on a report of an injured skier. There they found 62yearold Elizabeth Danel of Olympic Valley unconcious, and she later passed away. While her exact cause of death is still being investigated, firefighters say she appears to have been hurt after hitting a tree. While it may take until the end of the weekend, there are some signs that a more active storm pattern will return to the region. In the short term, the west coast ridge of High Pressure will continue to keep us warm and dry, nudging storms too far to the north to give us much chance of getting any water out of them. High temperatures will rise to near 70 degrees tuesday and wednesday before falling back to the low 60s on ridge finally breaks down to allow the first of what could be several storms to move into the region, with valley rain a decent possibility, but mountain rain and snow almost a sure bet on sunday. Local workers
Weekend. Firefighters responded to the ski resort just after 130 pm on saturday, on a report of an injured skier. There they found 62yearold Elizabeth Danel of olympic valley. She was unconcious, and later passed away. While her exact cause of death is still being investigated, firefighters say she appears to have hit a tree. At sugar bowl ski resort, the body of a ski instructor who went missing last month has been found. 23yearold carson may disappeared on january 14th. That prompted a search that lasted for days, but had to be called off due to bad weather. His body was found by tahoe nordsic and El Dorado County search and rescue yesterday morning. About a quarter mile out of bounds, in an avalanceprone area near the original search site. Sugar bowl says their thoughts and prayers are with mays family, and that yesterdays discovery helps bring closure. Lets check in with meteorologist Jeff Martinez for good morning, jeff partly sunny, mild and windy today with a high of 70 in reno.
Experts say an ideal runoff would begin in april with sustained snowmelt to keep the water from soaking into the ground. The snowmelt has already started in some areas. Jeff we had a lot of low elevation snow that melted off all at the same time and that boosted river flows. It got some of the smaller creeks flowing and its boosted reservoirs. Lahontan reservoir has doubled its volume in the last month. March averages about 8 inches of precipitation. Thanks to the good start to winter anderson says just a few wet storms could mean the snowpack will peak either at or above normal. Jeff even after a pretty dry month, were still sitting at near normal conditions, which is way better than weve had the last four years. Chad what we have now compared to what we had the last few years, this is great. This is a great snowpack. March is the big unknown as far as how much moisture well get but experts are hoping the winter will end the way it began with plenty of precipitation. Covering the big
Have started to appear over the last couple of weeks. It is not the only stretch of roadway that the city of reno finds itself playing catchup in a race they most likely wont win. Its a sound that has become all too familiar for those who work and live in the south virginia street area between plumb and patriot. Pot holes, which have started to appear over the last couple of weeks. The womens riding specialist here at great basin bicycles says she started taking another route to work. Cat gardella driver to date, a little pot holey, unpredictable, especially right after the stop light at patriot and south virginia. Nice big old rut has been there for several weeks. Gardella took that route today so she didnt notice crews working on filling the potholes. According the citys maintenance and Operations Manager marnell heinz, crews have been working on the road with an asphalt and aggregate mixture to help cover the pot holes which are about an inch deep. It will work for a a little while