Much for springlike weather with temperatures in the 60s and 70s. The polar express. Now, hours away forecast coming up next. When fun time from the bay areas local news station. Youre watching kron. 4 news. Thank you for joining us tonight on kron. 4 news at 10. Im grant lotus and im vicki liviakis. So lets go ahead and take a live look right now at downtown San Francisco. Things are quiet for the moment. It has been lovely outside the past several days. But all good things must come to an end. Lawrence is with us now. Well, its the storm looks pretty yeah. Its going to be a large storm. Its going to be a long period storm to a boy in the sierra nevada. Were talking about tremendous amounts of snow, maybe even some snow in our peaks to out the door. Now youve seen some changes begin. Clouds are starting to move into the bay area and now the rain has not started yet, but it is not that far away. Doppler radar showing you a couple raindrops, far Northern California beginning to sneak in
And your saturday, this is going to be the most significant snow of the season thus far. Snow kicked off this morning already, but our heaviest of it is friday through saturday. Now this is going to pile up above 5,000 feet. 5 to 12 feet of snow. That includes Donner Summit. Roadways are going to be impassable. If you had plans on gelting to the sierra, cancel those plans, it is just a nogo. And if youre already up in the sierra, make sure to have emergency kit with you in several days worth of food. In the case, the power goes out to its not just the heavy snow, but strong winds gusting as high as 80 to 90 Miles Per Hour. As for the bay area are impact is going to be a little less severe, but it is going to impact us. Nonetheless 50s for our current temperatures and thats where well land for a daytime highs later today. Weve already seen a lot of cancellations and delays out of sfo and with rainfall intensity only increasing later today, expect more of those delays as we go. James, th
Lets do it. This this is the day weve been bracing for. Steves going to bring it to you. Yeah. Hes talking about your forecast. Whats coming . I am indeed. I hope you got out yesterday. Enjoyed that. Nice weather because it is long gone. It is not sunny in palo alto. I have to fix everything but 40s. 50s on the temps here. A lot of low clouds. Drizzle is already begun. Our system has moved in or even light rain. Well to the north. But this is more coming in this afternoon. This evening, and its the start of a Long Duration event and just incredible amounts of snow. It will rain morning, overcast, drizzle or light rain for some, especially the north. Cloudy, cooler rain develops in the wind will pick up as well. Get used to cooler temps. Much cooler as we go into the weekend. All right, sal is here. Good. Bad. Whats going on . Well, you know, right now we have a mostly dry commute, steve, and thats what i like. Dry commutes, but its not going to stay that way for long. At the bay bridge
Bit breezy out there so far. But as far as rain goes, most of us have just seen light showers, really heavy mist at this point. Coastal areas in north bay. You are seeing wet conditions on the roads. So take it a little slower in these areas. You can clearly see the where the rainfall is. A already is up along the north coast and you see all that speckled cloud cover offshore. These are called cellular clouds right here. And oftentimes for when its cold and unsettled, this is a sure sign of some Thunderstorm Development thats likely to work its way on into the bay area later today and on into tomorrow, too. You can actually see some of those thunderstorms developing later on today. And future cast those deeper areas of green and notice that blue becomes a lot more widespread leading into tomorrow and saturday. Thats because cold air rushes in to the bay area and in particular, the sierra resulting in very heavy snowfall. Blizzard warnings in effect the next several days. Roadways going
Tonight. Storm clouds are moving in over lake tahoe and the region is preparing for treacherous conditions, not seen in years travel warnings are being issued, but still, people from the bay area are making that trek to the mountains. Were going to pack a bunch of games and flashlights and stuff just in case. But yeah, fingers crossed that we can at least hit the slopes 1 or 2 days. Skiers are hoping to make it up to the sierra before the conditions deteriorate. Good evening. Im Claudine Wong and im mike mibach. A blizzard warning is set to go in effect in just about six hours. We do have Live Team Coverage tonight of the storm on the way. Ktvu joey horton is standing by after talking to bay area residents who are ignoring travel warnings in the sierra. But first, lets go right to chief meteorologist bill martin. Bill, this is a major snow event here. Yeah, its a major snow event. Its a big storm for sure, but in the bay area its going to be light to moderate rain over the next three d