A series of winter storms is expected to affect the Sierra and northwestern Nevada starting New Year’s Eve, with conditions potentially worsening into the holiday weekend.
The first system arrives late Wednesday into New Year’s Day, bringing scattered rain showers to lower elevations and mountain snow. Effects from that storm are expected to be limited, though pockets of freezing rain are possible in the eastern Sierra, the National Weather Service in Reno said.
Snow levels are expected to drop quickly Friday night (Jan. 2) as colder air moves in, NWS Reno said. That could bring chain controls and travel delays on Sierra highways, while rain in western Nevada valleys could cause some runoff issues…