{"id":18783,"date":"2017-01-05T09:54:08","date_gmt":"2017-01-05T09:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=18783"},"modified":"2017-01-05T10:02:53","modified_gmt":"2017-01-05T10:02:53","slug":"10-15-feet-of-snow-to-bury-california-wintry-weather-also-targets-south","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/news\/10-15-feet-of-snow-to-bury-california-wintry-weather-also-targets-south.html","title":{"rendered":"10-15 feet of snow to bury California, wintry weather also targets South"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"Justify\">\n<h2><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">10-15 feet of snow to bury California, wintry weather also targets South<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><strong>10-15 feet of snow to bury California, wintry weather also targets South:-<\/strong> A series of winter storms is forecast to continue hammering California with several feet of heavy snow and driving rain over the next few days and into the weekend, good news for the drought-plagued state and for ski areas, but potentially bad news for travelers and homeowners worried about floods and mudslides.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Meanwhile, a storm could also spread a stripe of snow across the South, all the way from Texas to Virginia, from late Thursday into Saturday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">In the West, &#8220;the combination of storms through this weekend has the potential to bring the biggest amount of rain and mountain snow to California since the drought began several years ago,&#8221; according to AccuWeather meteorologist Jim Andrews.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Storm total has now reached 4.5 FEET! Taken by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/squawvalley?src=hash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#squawvalley<\/a> patroller Ivan M. this morning <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/mysquawalpine?src=hash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#mysquawalpine<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/99MOBoEqJE\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/99MOBoEqJE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Squaw Alpine (@squawalpine) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/squawalpine\/status\/816684573706911744\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 4, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Several feet of snow has already fallen in the Sierra Nevada from one storm, and several more feet is on the way from a second, more intense storm that should hit over the weekend.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">One ski area, Squaw Alpine, has recorded 4.5 feet, according to its Twitter account.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Another 10 to 15 feet of snow could bury portions of the Sierra over the next 10 days, according to WeatherBell meteorologist Ryan Maue.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Enormous snow totals still modeled:  10-15+feet from warm, very moist series of Atmospheric Rivers down-spouting over Sierra <br \/>Next 10-days: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/U1cBfPWIJy\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/U1cBfPWIJy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ryan Maue (@RyanMaue) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RyanMaue\/status\/816741372455690240\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 4, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Closer to the coast, heavy rain could lead to flooding, mudslides and debris flows in both the San Francisco and Los Angeles metro areas, the National Weather Service warned.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">The source of the heavy rain and snow in the West is what meteorologists call an &#8220;atmospheric river,&#8221; which acts like a fire hose to funnel moisture from the tropical Pacific toward California.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">These rivers transport huge amounts of water vapor \u2014 the gas form of liquid water \u2014 toward the West, where it&#8217;s wrung out in the form of rain and snow, noted Mashable&#8217;s Andrew Freedman.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">If one originates near Hawaii, it&#8217;s sometimes referred to the Pineapple Express.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Southern snow?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Any snow that falls in the South over the next few days will be measured in inches, not feet, but it doesn&#8217;t take much to wreak traffic chaos there. After one round of snow Thursday in the Ohio Valley and Appalachians, more substantial snow could fall by Friday and Saturday in the South.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">According to AccuWeather, cities at greatest risk for some snow, a wintry mix or flash freeze Friday and Saturday include Jackson, Miss.; Birmingham, Ala.; Chattanooga, Tenn.; Atlanta; Charlotte, Winston-Salem and Raleigh, N.C.; and Richmond, Va.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"> &#8220;The potential exists for difficult winter driving conditions in parts of the South beginning Friday,&#8221; the Weather Channel said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">In anticipation of delays or cancellations, Delta Airlines is allowing passengers to change flights without penalty in the Southeast.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A storm may unleash travel-disrupting snow in the southern US as the week concludes: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8AGvkrJ2q0\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/8AGvkrJ2q0<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wWzPMntJLg\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/wWzPMntJLg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; AccuWeather (@breakingweather) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/breakingweather\/status\/816684657022529536\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 4, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\">Source:-\u00a0http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/weather\/2017\/01\/04\/california-sierra-snow-south\/96164874\/<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/news\/10-15-feet-of-snow-to-bury-california-wintry-weather-also-targets-south.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>10-15 feet of snow to bury California, wintry weather also targets South 10-15 feet of snow to bury California, wintry weather also targets South:- A series of winter storms is forecast to continue hammering California with several feet of heavy snow and driving rain over the next few days and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18784,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[11436,11439,11441,11438,11442,11443,11440,11437],"class_list":["post-18783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-10-15-feet-of-snow-to-bury-california","tag-atmospheric-river","tag-blizzard","tag-snowstorm","tag-storm","tag-winter","tag-winter-weather","tag-wintry-weather-also-targets-south"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}