00:00Let's go to Truckee, California for more on our top story where we have been buried by heavy snow.
00:05Isn't that impressive? And just think, we're about a storm and a half into it with this footage
00:10and we have at least four and a half more to go. We're in the midst of one storm.
00:16There's another one coming in for Wednesday night and Thursday. There's another one coming in Sunday
00:20night and Monday. There's another one coming in Tuesday into Wednesday next week. So imagine what
00:25it's going to look like on the other side of all this. We've had a very lackluster snowpack into this
00:31week, but now we're going to make up for lost time into Utah, to parts of Colorado, northern Arizona,
00:37northern New Mexico. We're back into it. This is good news here. Now it's going to be disruptive
00:41for travelers, but we need this here for water supply concerns. The Colorado River Basin has been
00:46pretty parched, but snow is the best way to get this stuff because you get the timed release
00:52through the warmer months. Here's the next round. This is going to be storm number three,
00:57northern California pushing into central and then southern California late in the day Thursday.
01:02That scoots into the interior Thursday night. Snow returns to Flagstaff, Cedar City, Salt Lake City.
01:08It was amazing. You made it into early February with one-tenth of an inch of snow in Salt Lake
01:12City.
01:13Typically, you'd have a couple dozen by then. Well, we're making up for some lost time eventually now.
01:18They're getting these colder storms and we have blue on the map here instead of the pink.
01:22So we're looking at snow showers instead of the rain-snow mix. But overall, we've got drenching
01:26rain for our Wednesday and our Thursday across California. Heavy snow in the Sierra. Brisk and
01:34chilly here on Thursday during the day of the interior, but the snow returns to the interior
01:39Thursday evening and Thursday night. So again, round after round of this. Rainfall amounts two to
01:44four inches for San Francisco, Santa Maria, and Los Angeles. There's a narrow zone here of four to eight
01:49inches just north of LA. If you're high enough up there, you're going to get into some snow.
01:53But if you're in the foothills, that's where you're likely to see four plus inches. We're very
01:57concerned about burn scar flooding there up the hill and through Pacific Palisades and Altadena.
02:04Now, when it comes to snowfall, some of the high Sierra will see even more than eight feet,
02:10which is incredible. But four to eight feet of snow for many of the Sierra. And also into the passes
02:15here, we're looking at four to eight feet of snow, eight to 12 feet in the highest crest of the
02:20Sierra with incredible amounts of snow through Friday. And again, if you have to travel through
02:24Donner Pass, again, it's just going to be a nightmare. We had so many problems last night as
02:28night fell. People got stuck out there. That's a dangerous situation with temperatures below
02:33freezing, the wind and the snow picking up. In Southern California here, the snow levels will be
02:37dropping to around and even below 3,000 feet late today. And closures are possible for the
02:42Tejon Pass. That's I-5. The Cajon Pass, that's I-15, north northeast out of L.A. But I-5
02:49there
02:49between Bakersfield and Los Angeles. Look out, we got problems. And then into Thursday, you can see
02:53more heavy rain in Southern California.
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