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It’s a white Christmas for much of the north state, and a wet Christmas for the south state

Posted by: Maven on December 25, 2008 at 9:03 am

From Redding’s Record Searchlight, news that it’s a white Christmas for the north state:

Much of the north state will see a white Christmas today – perhaps the whitest in 20 years. And out in the real world, that could mean having to chain up to get over the hill to Grandma’s house.

Snow fell as low as 700 feet around Anderson and west Redding early Wednesday before the air warmed a couple of degrees and the flakes turned to rain. But the snow stuck above 1,000 feet in places like Lakehead, Shasta and French Gulch.

As another polar front bore down on the north state Wednesday afternoon, and National Weather Service forecasters expected more snow in already slushy spots. They issued a Winter Storm Warning for the mountains and foothills around the far northern Sacramento Valley through 4 p.m. today. The winter weather warning includes the Burney Basin and all of eastern Shasta County.

Up to an inch of snow could fall at the 1,000 foot-level in the foothills around the valley through this morning, said Holly Osborne, a National Weather Service forecaster in Sacramento.

Read more from the Record-Searchlight by clicking here.

And it’s a wet & breezy Christmas for the south state, as the Sciencedude from the O.C. Register reports:

The edge of a North Pacific storm that mostly bypassed Southern California is dropping light rain across Orange County on this Christmas morning, and the wind is gusting hard in some areas. The National Weather Service, which incorrectly forecast that the storm would veer into the county and drop 1-2 inches of rain, says today’s showers will occur off-and-on through early afternoon. But the winds will linger, and temperatures won’t rise above the low 50s in many areas. The Anaheim Hills already has reported gusts to 28 mph, and Tonner Canyon has hit 22 mph.

Read more from the Sciencedude by clicking here.

Enjoy your holiday!

December 25, 2008 · Filed Under Drought, Weather & Snowpack

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