Cold Front Brings 1st Snow of the Season to Sierra

[at140]

A strong Sierra cold front packing winds gusting up to 50 mph dropped the first snow of the season Monday in the mountains along the California-Nevada line and damaged a small airplane that was blown off the runway at an airport north of Reno.

California transportation officials posted a photo on the Caltrans District 3 Twitter account shortly after noon Monday showing snow accumulating on U.S. Interstate 80 at the top of Donner Summit about 10 miles west of Truckee, California.

https://ktla.com/2019/09/16/cold-front-brings-1st-snow-of-the-season-to-sierra/

Mid-September snow? Seems awfully early, and i am glad to be in Florida where it is a balmy 76 right now.

[mn9driver]

1. South Lake Tahoe averages 1.1 day of snow in September

Although some years it doesn’t snow until November. The only months that historically don’t average any snowfall are July and August.

[at140]

2. Whew...I had once considered retiring there

because it is a beautiful region.

[scgator2001]

3. September?

As the effects of man made warming become more severe, wouldn’t it be expected that the first snow would be in October? I remember climate experts saying that snow fall will become rare as warming becomes more severe.

[radical noodle]

4. Not necessarily

That's why it's called climate change. Warming can cause more extremes in everything.

[Rhiannon12866]

5. And I also agree with what's been said. It's not just higher temps, but extremes of weather

More hurricanes, more flooding - and I'm in the Northeast and we've had record low temperatures for the past few winters all over the region.