Today. We are going to be looking at a good day to heading out there. We are seeing a little bit of cloud cover and a low gray hanging out in a few spots of the day. You can see a mix of that right now right here above suture tower. Not a lot showing up on radar, though. Most of our rainfall potential today. Its going to be well to the north north of santa rosa, mendocino and lake county. Kind of stuff. Bay area. Dont be surprised if you see a sprinkle or 2 as we do move into the afternoon, temperatures have actually been really mild so far only falling into the upper 40s in livermore in fremonts while 50s in oakland seth, no 30s on the map this morning. So no frost advisories either. Theres that low gray over sfo. Check your airport delays because we may have a few of them with cloud cover the way it is. Low 60s for your highs later on. As for roads this morning, we had a couple incidents on the bay bridge earlier. Those have cleared out and your drive time is gradually improved. 22 m
Stormy weather early next week. Jeff cam 3 wx mic forecast. Power outages, tree and fence damage, and blowing dust and debris are all possible. Winter storm warning for the sierra, including the tahoe basin, from 4 pm friday until 10 am saturday. Winter weather advisory for plumas and lassen counties from 10 pm friday until 10 am saturday. A series of storms will affect the region from friday through late to fall this weekend. Not every street will be plowed. Slippery conditions in the valleys early saturday and again sunday and sunday night. Very cold temperatures will follow the Stormy Weather early next week. Jeff cam 3 wx mic when the snow starts to fall this weekend. Not every street will be plowed. The city of reno. Just doesnt have the resources to do that. Instead. They plow based on priority. Kolo 8 news nows colin lygren joins us Live Corporation yard. With when they plow. How they plow. And where they plow. Colin . Sarah. The city of reno has 19 snow plows here at their corp
Pavement policy, we do not have the resources to be able to do that, so we concentrate on the arterials and collectors and the problematic residential roadways. The steeper hills, the curves, things of that nature. There is a good reason for the plowing policy. Roads with more cars. Needs to be plowed first. That way. Accidents are less likely to happen. Roads with fewer cars naturally have a lower chance of accidents. The final debate before the Iowa Caucuses will not feature the gop frontrunner. Donald trump is standing his ground on his feud with fox news anchor megyn kelly. Instead of appearing at tonights event, the billionaire will hold his own event, he says will raise money for veterans groups. Senator ted cruz will now stand center stage. Cruz has challenged trump to debate him oneonone. An offer trump has refused. I think ted cruz is more disappointed than fox news that donald trump isnt at the debate, because i think ted cruz, as the polls show, is now needs to start worryin
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If the storm brings a sizable amount of snow to the valley floor. The city of reno says its ready to clean most. But not all of it up. Kolo 8 news nows colin lygren is standing by live with which streets get plowed first, and why. Colin . Sarah the city is not able to plow every single road in town. Simply because. There are too many. Throughout town there are two thousand two hundred forty four lane miles of road. Plowing that much pavement would require about fifty plows working around the clock. The city of reno. Only has 19 plows. So. Instead of cleaning the snow off of every road. Crews just focus on arterials. And collector roads. In other words. Roads that have a lot of traffic. The main priority is for emergency purposes, for transportation purposes, for rtc. We clear the arterials first and we work into the collectors then we finally work into the residentials. To give you an example. Priority one streets are virginia. 4th street. Sierra. Arlington. Etc. Priority two streets w