This thing is a monster as this live picture from lake tahoe zephyr cove shows you a storm so powerful its closing roads, shutting down ski resorts and posing a real risk of Power Outages for all those folks hunkering down, planning to ride this thing out . Yeah. Lets get the latest on the conditions up there from abc seven news meteorologist sandhya patel. Sandhya. Yeah. And dan and ama, you know, i have never seen the kind of amounts that the Weather Service is putting out, which is 12ft or higher in the mountains. Let me show you a live picture right now from the sierra in the last several decades, ive covered weather, bay area and the monterey bay. That kind of total has never been put out there. It is blizzard conditions in the mountains right now. Last year we had Atmospheric River after Atmospheric River that dumped snow several feet over the course of several weeks and months. But this is in a short period of time. I would not advise travel wind, blizzard warning until 10 a. M.
Saturday, march 2nd. Im stephanie sierra. Lets get right to meteorologist lisa argen in the weather center. And she is tracking the latest on this level one storm. Good morning lisa. Hey stephanie. Good morning to you. Certainly wet out there right now. And the winds continue to be quite gusty. The wind advisory until 10 00. Live doppler seven. Right now picking up on the smattering of showers. And we have a thunderstorm around mount diablo and also up towards the north bay. You can see the blizzard still going strong in the Sierra Nevada. And theres a look at our thunderstorm on top of mount diablo, where that yellow is san ramon. And danville. 680 looking at the wet weather towards martez u through 780, some light to moderate showers in the pink there, indicating the rain. Snow mix through 116 lagunitas back through marin and then penngrove. You can see the colder air moving on in with behind the system. And thiss the situation down around mount hamilton. Were certainly looking at so
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Evaluated to the west coast. The Tsunami Center is saying the threat is being evaluated. So stay tuned. Dan and dion okay. Thank you very much, sandy. Well stay on top of that of course. But lets move on. You know when they say every vote counts, this congressional race is exactly why they say that former san jose mayor sam liccardo will be in the november general election, but his opponent is to be determined. Joe simitian holds a five vote lead on evan lowe, abc seven News Reporter zach fuentes is live at the Registrars Office in san jose. And zach, this is an important day, really and potentially settling this race. That is absolutely right. Today at 5 00 was the deadline for people who had ballots that needed to be fixed to come in and correct them. Now that that deadline is past, after these weeks of fluctuating votes, all of the votes in ballots that can be counted are in leading us. That much closer to final election results. The primary elections happened march fifth. But in th