It will fill in and we expect the rain in the south bay and then as we go through 11 00 we are under a bit of a break here with the scattered rain and that mixed force. On and off it will see isolated wind gusts up to 50. Isolated street flooding but that big bullseye it is the sierra snow getting a little higher. So look at these totals. This is as we head up through friday night. 27 in tahoe 79 inches up toward friday night and sunday you have 1 to 2000 feet. Pass levels are at 5 to 9 inches so icy travel is here even in clear lake. Despite plenty of warnings to stay away summer still heading up to lake tahoe anyway. Jody hernandez has been talking to travelers and joins us along interstate 80 tonight. What is chp telling you . They are saying stay off the road the storm is the real deal and it is expected to be bigger and colder than any storms so far this season. And theyre saying dont had there. Tim rodriguez hit the road early hoping to beat the big storm. Once those conditions h
Warnings in the sierra out this morning. The dangerous conditions and what to keep in mind if you are heading there. This is today in the bay. This is thursday morning. Good thursday morning to you. I am marcus washington. I am laura garcia. This incoming storm, when will it hit . We will start out with spotty showers. It wont initially start out with a bang, and it will gradually start to impact us. We are starting to see more impacts as we go towards the end of the weekend. We are expecting spotty rain and breezy winds at times and also wind in the forecast with cooler temperatures for tomorrow into the rest of the weekend. For the sierra, as we mentioned, theres a blizzard warning in effect from today through sunday. Travel will be very difficult if not impossible during the time the storm really starts to hit. We will see very cold temperatures. Some of the rain now moving further to the north and working its way into the bay area. As we look hour by hour, spotty rain from 9 00 to
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Just evolve and well start off with a look at the conditions in the sierra right now because there is a lot of snow on the roadways that were expecting and we could see a lot more of this and overturned big rig truck blocking all the lanes on eastbound 80. Thats is from earlier this morning. The chp sharing this video of clearing that big rig and there is more of that kind of nasty weather. 2 cop. Here is a look now at conditions in the bay area. This is our camera on top of mount tam. And you can see there it is raining. Meteorologist kyla grogan is in the Weather Center now to kick us off here with the latest. Whats happening here in the bay area . Yeah. And you know, just said reiterate this year, were going to talk about that a little later in the show as well. But the big takeaway is stay off the roads. We are definitely dealing with some very blizzardlike conditions that are going to get worse as roads the next couple of days. Right now, you can see theres just some light rain ar
Soon. Ski resorts, Emergency Responders and locals are bracing for whats expected to be the biggest snowstorm of the year so far in the sierra ktvu erasmus here in studio to explain the warnings and advice from emergency officials, and we can see these these conditions changing minute by minute. Yeah. And you just showed that live picture of highway 50. Were going to show you how different it is over on interstate 80. You know, those are the two main ways to get up to the sierra from the bay area and interstate 80 at Donner Summit is closed. This is showing the eastbound direction. The closures on the westbound direction, and they are turning traffic around at kingsville. And thats because of a big rig that flipped over. That happened in 9 00 this morning. The chp does not expect to open this part of interstate 80 until 1 00 or later. This afternoon. Its the kind of thing the chp is worried about with this major storm now underway in the sierra , the wind coming in with this storm is a