Much for springlike weather with temperatures in the 60s and 70s. The polar express. Now, hours away forecast coming up next. When fun time from the bay areas local news station. Youre watching kron. 4 news. Thank you for joining us tonight on kron. 4 news at 10. Im grant lotus and im vicki liviakis. So lets go ahead and take a live look right now at downtown San Francisco. Things are quiet for the moment. It has been lovely outside the past several days. But all good things must come to an end. Lawrence is with us now. Well, its the storm looks pretty yeah. Its going to be a large storm. Its going to be a long period storm to a boy in the sierra nevada. Were talking about tremendous amounts of snow, maybe even some snow in our peaks to out the door. Now youve seen some changes begin. Clouds are starting to move into the bay area and now the rain has not started yet, but it is not that far away. Doppler radar showing you a couple raindrops, far Northern California beginning to sneak in
And your saturday, this is going to be the most significant snow of the season thus far. Snow kicked off this morning already, but our heaviest of it is friday through saturday. Now this is going to pile up above 5,000 feet. 5 to 12 feet of snow. That includes Donner Summit. Roadways are going to be impassable. If you had plans on gelting to the sierra, cancel those plans, it is just a nogo. And if youre already up in the sierra, make sure to have emergency kit with you in several days worth of food. In the case, the power goes out to its not just the heavy snow, but strong winds gusting as high as 80 to 90 Miles Per Hour. As for the bay area are impact is going to be a little less severe, but it is going to impact us. Nonetheless 50s for our current temperatures and thats where well land for a daytime highs later today. Weve already seen a lot of cancellations and delays out of sfo and with rainfall intensity only increasing later today, expect more of those delays as we go. James, th
My french toast sticks are back starting at 2. 50. Now with a sweet new twist Cinnamon Sugar churro. Dunk, bite and savor them any time of day. Or all day its totally up to you. Only for a limited time. Welcome to jack in the box wet start to the weekend as wind and rain soaks bay area cities and snow is piling up tonight in the sierra, powerful blizzard shutting down a stretch of interstate 80 and leaving hundreds of drivers stranded and just going to wait it out and see see if we can make it through. A life threatening blizzard slamming the sierra tonight. Good evening. Im greg lee and im cristina rendon, new video tonight showing the treacherous conditions for drivers heading through the mountains, car after car stuck at Donner Summit on interstate 80. This video here was shot around 7 00 tonight. It shows the whiteout conditions near lake tahoe. Strong winds whipping heavy snow right across the mountain. Well give you a live look now of 80. This is at donner lake. All roads shut do
Sierra right now in what could be the strongest and coldest winter storm of the season. And experts are warning not to take any chances. Oh man, this is really exciting because we have not seen a storm like this in probably three years or so. Four maybe. Definitely a different tone for the ski company. The storm creating a blizzard boost. If you are going to bring a new police chief in, are they as good as or better than what you had . Its been a long waiting game in the search for oaklands next top cop. And now the four finalists face the community. Now the outlet to curry. Long three in transition. Wow. Vintage steph in what many call the mecca of basketball. The dubs keep on rolling and moving up in the west. So good morning to all of you. Im nicole zaloumis. We are rolling into this friday. You know, its a little quirky today but were having fun and i think its the weather. Im going to blame everything onrain this weekend you guys. Blame it on the rain. But it actually wasn milli v
Bit breezy out there so far. But as far as rain goes, most of us have just seen light showers, really heavy mist at this point. Coastal areas in north bay. You are seeing wet conditions on the roads. So take it a little slower in these areas. You can clearly see the where the rainfall is. A already is up along the north coast and you see all that speckled cloud cover offshore. These are called cellular clouds right here. And oftentimes for when its cold and unsettled, this is a sure sign of some Thunderstorm Development thats likely to work its way on into the bay area later today and on into tomorrow, too. You can actually see some of those thunderstorms developing later on today. And future cast those deeper areas of green and notice that blue becomes a lot more widespread leading into tomorrow and saturday. Thats because cold air rushes in to the bay area and in particular, the sierra resulting in very heavy snowfall. Blizzard warnings in effect the next several days. Roadways going