California Blizzard Warning Map, Today's Forecast. Published Feb 28, 2024 at 11:35 AM EST Updated Feb 29, 2024 at 6:39 AM EST. By . Robyn White is a Newsweek Nature Reporter based in London, UK.

Officially, the National Weather Service defines a blizzard as a storm that contains large amounts of snow or blowing snow, with winds over 35 mph and visibilities of less than 1/4 mile for an ...

Map: Crossing Fire in Southern California The storm is also bringing danger to boaters. A gale warning — a step above a small-craft advisory — was issued for ocean waters.

Frigid storm to slam California: Blizzard warning for local mountains, snow at low elevations Michel Martinez Morales steadies her sister, Melanie, as they play last week on a snowy roadside near ...

A series of low-pressure systems packing cold air straight from Canada has brought low-elevation snow and a rare blizzard warning for Southern California’s mountains. Now, as if to add an ...

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: Blizzard will unleash 'real danger' upon unhoused people As much as 5 feet of snow may fall in some mountains near Los Angeles, creating whiteout conditions as winds gust to ...

Parts of California are seeing a rare blizzard warning as a winter storm makes it way to the west coast. Fox Weather Flood watches have also been issued for areas in Los Angeles and Santa Barbara.

The National Weather Service in Reno, Nev., has only issued eight blizzard warnings since 2002. The last warning in the Tahoe area was almost exactly a year ago: Feb. 27, 2023.

Northern California’s blizzard will bring heavy snow, high winds and severe road conditions. It could also improve the Sierra Nevada snowpack.

Related: Rare blizzard warning leads to closures, cancellations across Southern California “This is the first blizzard warning that we are aware of,” the weather service said in a Twitter post ...

For perspective, my current view is that just about any place in the "yellow or higher" areas on this topographic contour map of California (i.e., ~900-1000ft) has a decent shot at accumulating ...