Details about objections from critics. And stay away from the sierra. That is the message from authorities. Roads are closed, power is out, and the sierra blizzard warning. Weve been watching remains in effect until tomorrow morning. For those who tried to make that trip whiteout conditions and closures causing a traffic mess here in the bay area. Roads are still wet at this hour. Were seeing some major traffic issues causing lane closures in the east bay from the ktvu, fox two news. This is morning on two. Good morning to you and welcome to mornings on two. On this saturday march second im claudine wong. Happy weekend one and all im Frank Mallicoat. The big story today of course is the weather. Not only here in the bay area but up in the sierra. Lets check in with rosemary and find out how much and when its all going to stop. Are well, we will get a break. It looks like tomorrow though. Today is going to be off and on the sierra. Of course, the blizzard warning continues as you mentio
Highway 50. And obviously, you can see why a ton of snow falling here, a blizzard warning is in effect right now up in the mountains, and we have dangerous conditions for much of the sierra. Weve been warning you about this massive storm for days now. It is now here. Welcome everyone to the for this afternoon im alex savage and im heather holmes. And already weve seen a wind gust measuring about 145mph there in the tahoe basin case. Youre wondering thats the strength of a category four hurricane. And the area could see more than ten feet of snow over the next coming days. Ktvu tom vacar has been monitoring the situation in the mountains. He joins us now live with some of the impressive pictures coming out of the tahoe area. Impressive to say the least. The stars, moon and the isobars and jet streams have all aligned to whack the mountains. Extreme caution is very much advised. Once we get to sunset. Thats where things do start to get a bit more spicy. So far, mountain winds and snow ha
Weather for you, daly city and san bruno. 280 by the airport and finally around Mount Hamilton. You could see some snowy peaks tomorrow along with perhaps mount tam is our own local snow levels continue to lower, so far we havent seen a whole lot, but it is a level two system looking for the possibility of thunderstorms and very gusty winds through tonight. And heres a look at the 24 hour rainfall totals from anywhere from 0. 63. In santa rosa, 5100 brentwood, oakland. A third of an inch. And look at these winds 35 to 40 mile an hour sustained winds all over the bay area. Quite gusty, but upper elevations 50 to 55 miles. An hour from the Oakland Hills to mount diablo. So we have our wind advisory throughout the day today. And taking us through tomorrow all over the bay area in the next few hours. Its going to be rainy if youre headed out tonight. The rain continues to sink to the south and were going to see those downpours. Chance of a thunderstorm right on through early saturday, so i
2000ft. So that is a lot of snow. So the projections looking at anywhere from 5 to 10in all the way down to about colfax, as we talked here about the sierra snow lab, as you mentioned, 19in reported there since earlier this morning in a 24 hour period. And then areas in the 8700ft reporting near tahoe city at the summit last night 145 mile per hour wind gusts. So very strong winds, very hazardous and dangerous conditions right now. South lake tahoe reporting a wind gust to 39 and a gap about 5000ft. Reporting a wind gust to 41. The advise is for a blizzard warning will continue until sunday morning, expected to expire right around 10 a. M. The avalanche warning for the greater lake tahoe area goes until tomorrow morning. That may be extended, and as weve been talking about for a few days now, above 5000ft could see ten feet, maybe even 12. All said and done with snow levels expected to drop down to below 2000ft by the end of the weekend, a better look at the Current Conditions of what