Kron. 4 morning far. Well, good friday morning. Thank you for waking lives right early for the kron. 4 morning news reyna harvey. All right. Today is march first and were talking about the big storm that is here. Want to make sure that youre safe. John show youve been actively talking about this for the weekend is arrive. Coming salutely and yesterday we saw kicking into gear in today for the sierra kick it into high gear. Were looking at the forecast for the weekend. That is not going to be fun for your travels specially not to the mountains as for the bay. Right now we are seeing lighter showers out there. Getting a break from it for a lot of spots. Golden gate bridge. You can see the sway to that camera. There. We are definitely breezy as well as windy spots of rain, mostly light this morning at this point. But we will see heavier pockets as we roll our way into the afternoon and the sierra is really where the focus of this energy is. Were really starting to see the snow piling up u
We are seeing the storm system dumping heavy amounts of snow for the sierra, before the bay area, the rain has been very spotty, and thats the activity that we are expecting. As we take a look at one of our live pallisades cameras. Of course, weve gotten notes that they have closed the resort but were seeing very low visibility and we are expecting the conditions to continue to get worse, over the next several hours. And we can see the cold front, that long line of clouds, that we can see extending across the region, and moving closer to the bay area, so once that gets here, we are going to see the possibility of a few more thunderstorms, as that energy rolls right over the bay. And also transports a huge amount of moisture, not only across the bay area, but also through the sierra, where we are seeing the heavy snow coming down. For us, once again, we are not seeing anything in the way of any real extreme activity but staying spotty and gusty winds, and pick up as we track a chance of
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
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Your weekend with us. Im kira klapper. Developing right now, we have new video from Donner Summit overnight. People stuck in the sierra in the middle of a blizzard. The situation growing more dire as people were trapped in their cars for hours last night into this morning. With temperatures dropping gun is the 20s. One driver tells us he was driving with his dog from reno and forced to pull over. Stuck in the storm until one of these off ramps open. Losing traction and decided to pull over. Video from highway 80 near highway 89, close truckee shows low visibility over night. You can barely see the roads from our camera lens. From highway 80 to highway 50, despite the snow, 50 is actually open now, but driving on it is discouraged. This is what it looked like last night near sierra at tahoe. You see ice covering the road. Snow hitting the windshield. Chain controls in effect on highway 50. The ucberkeley Sierra Snow Lab is closely monitoring the situation. Video from their surveillance