[UPDATE 10:02 a.m.] Winter Storm Warning in Effect for the Mountains: Here’s What We Know About the Roads and Weather

We’re possibly heading back to wintery weather again. This morning there is a winter storm warning across much of northwestern California.

Be prepared for snow when traveling on Hwy 199, Hwy 299, Hwy 3, and Hwy 36. The snow may even reach Hwy 101 south of the Humboldt County line on Sunday according to the National Weather Service.

As of 8:20 a.m., none of the regular mountain passes show snow, however. Here is what we do know about the roads at this point. As more information comes in, we’ll update in blue.

Thank you for driving safely. Road sign, traffic

[Photo from Caltrans District 2]

Major Highways:

(Most information below from Caltrans’ Quick Map. If you are heading to Oregon, check their similar site.)

  • Hwy 1: Closed in both direction just west of Leggett. (See here for more info.) No estimated time of reopening as of February 24.
  • Hwy 3: Open
  • Hwy 20: Open (Note: Hwy 16 is blocked)
  • Hwy 36:  Open
  • Hwy 96:
    • According to Caltrans, “SR 96 is reduced to one lane with traffic control at Cade Mountain (Siskiyou CO) due to a slip-out. Motorists should expect delay. Conditions subject to change.”
    • “State Route 96 reduced to one lane with traffic control 2 miles east of Scott River Road (Siskiyou County) due to a slipout. Motorists should expect delays,” according to Caltrans.
    • Road Closure poster

      [Graphic from Caltrans]

      Caltrans posted, “Caltrans will begin performing emergency slope stabilization approximately one mile south of Weitchpec on Route 96 in Humboldt County on Monday, March 6. Full highway closures will be in effect intermittently from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. weekdays. Motorists should anticipate 30-minute delays.”
  • Hwy 101: 
    • There can be minor traffic delays on 101 north of Weott.
  • Hwy 169: Open (One lane blocked.)
  • Hwy 199: Open

     

  • Hwy 211: Open (Check out the Fernbridge live cam)
  • Hwy 254 (Avenue of the Giants):
    • Closed from Holmes Flat to Barkdull Road.
  • Hwy 255: Open
  • Hwy 271: Open
    Hwy 299:

    • Berry Summit is clear of snow as of 8 a.m.
    • The large slide at Big French Creek is still blocking east/west travel. Caltrans posted, “[On Sunday,]the road will be ***open*** to all travelers starting at 5:30 a.m. and continuing all day until next morning (Monday) at 7:30 a.m. with one-way traffic control and up to 30 minutes delays. Before and after the Sunday opening, the schedule continues as same as before”:

      Daily schedule (weekdays and weekends) as follows:
      Morning: 5:30 am to 7:30 am
      Single Opening: 10:00 am
      Single Opening: 12:00 noon
      Single Opening: 02:00 pm
      Afternoon: 4:30 pm to 6:30 pm
      Overnight: 6:30 pm to 5:30 am with 1-hour delays.

Humboldt County Roads:

Here’s what we know. As we learn details, we will add the information below. According to Humboldt County Public Works, “Driving on county roads during stormy periods, DRIVE SLOWLY and CAUTIOUSLY due to landslides, road failures and deep potholes. When in higher elevations, CARRY CHAINS.”

  • Alderpoint Road 1 way controlled traffic at PM 10.68, PM
    17.70, PM 26.00, PM 30.33 and PM 34.79
  • Bair Road 1 lane at PM 0.72 and PM 1.30 (carry chains)
  • Benbow Drive Closed
  • Blue Slide Road 1 lane at PM 1.75 and 3.25
  • Briceland Thorn Rd PM 3.27 – one way traffic with bridge and signal
  • Butler Valley Road 1 lane at PM 3.71
  • Cannibal Island Road-Closed
  • China Creek missing a chunk but still passable.
  • Coffee Creek Road Closed
  • Davison Road “closed and thus no car access to Gold Bluffs Beach or Fern Canyon,” reports Redwood National Park.
  • Dyerville Loop Road 1 lane at PM 2.00
  • East Branch Road in Benbow one way controlled traffic at 2.7 mm.
  • Eel River Drive closed at mile marker 1.
  • Eel Rock Rd. – 1 Lane controlled traffic at PM 2.7
  • Fort Seward Road 1 lane at PM 3.90
  • Fullmore Road closed
  • Hidden Court closed
  • Howard Heights Road flooded
  • Howland Hill Road expect delays. (See here fr more information.)
  • Jack Shaw Road closed at PM 1.3
  • Kings Peak Road closed at mile marker 7
  • Landergen Road closed
  • Lower Cappell Rd. at PM 1.49 open but road is soft and motorist must proceed with caution.
  • Mattole Rd one-way control at various locations
  • Meridian between Port Kenyon and Centerville Closed
  • Mosswood Lane closed
  • Needle Rock Road closed due to slide (See more here.)
  • Newton B. Drury Scenic Parkway closed after large falling tree put a hole in the road. No estimated time of reopening. (See here for more information.)
  • Nunnemaker Road at Eel Rock Road is closed
  • Port Kenyon closed
  • Red Cap Road slipout at PM 2.30 road is open proceed with caution
  • Salmon Creek Road closed at 0.56mm detour 101 or Maple Hills Road
  • Shelter Cove Road 1 lane at PM 7.60
  • Shively Road 1 lane controlled traffic at PM 0.50, PM 3.56, PM 7.00 and PM 11.50
  • Stagecoach Rd. – PM 1.00 Closed
  • Stover Road slide at PM 0.72 proceed with caution
  • Telegraph Creek Road 1 lane at PM 1.90
  • Titlow Hill Road carry chains
  • Wilder Ridge Road closed at Landergen Road indefinitely no alternate route.

  Trinity County Roads:

  • “Trinity Alps Road past Trinity Alps Resort accessing Stuarts Fork Trailhead has washed out. Road is CLOSED indefinitely,” according to the Trinity County Department of Transportation.
  • “Zenia Bluffs Road between Alder Point and Zenia is CLOSED due to slide,” according to the Trinity County Department of Transportation. “Estimated time of reopening is greater than a week. Use Peak Road.
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Capitalist pig
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Capitalist pig
7 years ago

Well looks like climate change is over the climate has changed back . I guess we can do away with the EPA now do away with all the silly environmental regulations that are costing taxpayers billions . Oh but it’s already too late for Chico college they were already forced to take a cutting torch to all their heavy equipment that they had for teaching heavy equipment operating in heavy equipment repair California air resources Board literally made them cut it up every piece of equipment and replace with new California air resources Board approved equipment I am talking about bulldozers backhoes excavators bobcats yet the media refuses to report on this environmental madness . The madness that is putting hundreds of families in California out of work because of the California truck and bus rule requiring them to retrofit their equipment at $70,000 per . I am talking about heavy highway trucks that are 2010 or older owners are being forced to destroy these trucks in California as of January 1 of this year . Just Google California air resources Board destroying California

Guest
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Guest
7 years ago
Reply to  Capitalist pig

Also banning lead ammunition which in it self isn’t such a big deal but in ca non lead ammunition is considered armor piercing and illegal out of a rifle

Shak
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Shak
7 years ago
Reply to  Guest

Lead was banned because lead shell casings are reloadable. The UN was bribing officials to switch over to all non-reusable casings. In light of the UN’s horrific assaults on women & all citizens in general, plus their uncontrollable love for wars & full control over all countries, the repealing of the lead ban is the sanest repeal I’ve seen in years.
Those who can’t believe how disgusting the UN really is, need to talk to the people in the countries who have been terrorized by them.

Over it
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Over it
7 years ago
Reply to  Shak

Preach it!!

Shak
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Shak
7 years ago
Reply to  Capitalist pig

The epa twisted the data to suit their poverty agenda. The scientists who performed the studies, had to fight tooth & nail to get the truths of the studies out to the public. The powers that be, slandered, fired, silenced them while promoting the twisted up conclusions. The scientists have fought the epa every step of their miserable lieing way. The epa even went so far as to try to prove their own conclusions, by alledgedly performing unconstitutional tests on real live people. Fortunately, the scientists were correct, & the people didnt die.

baffled
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baffled
7 years ago
Reply to  Capitalist pig

Climate change is erratic. We can switch back to drought next year.

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7 years ago
Reply to  baffled

Ice ages, droughts, famine, all happens and always will we are just along for the ride maybe we help it come quicker maybe we don’t, either way it’s going to happen, Mother Nature always does whatever the hell she wants

The Hermit of Grizzly Mountain
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The Hermit of Grizzly Mountain
7 years ago
Reply to  Capitalist pig

The space angels say the CO2 cover-up began with Reagan & Thatcher 1983, before Gore took up the cause:
https://poleshift.ning.com/profiles/blogs/zetatalk-newsletter-as-of-march-1-2017

Pinkasso
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Pinkasso
7 years ago

Hwy 36 is down to controlled one way between Wildwood and Platina because of a slide.

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7 years ago
Reply to  Pinkasso

Thanks for the update

Wwi
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Wwi
7 years ago

Read some books with the actual science of climate change. The models are actually pretty simple once you see how ocean currents move and how temperature/fresh water influx affects the weather. Its how the whole “engine” works. You cant drain the oil and have no antifreeze in your car engine and expect it to work correctly.

This winter is closer to normal weather but on steroids. All over CA. Theres been record breaking rain and snow levels. Atmospheric scientists have found that these are the highest CO2 levels since humans appeared on the planet.

Lots and lots and lots of good science has been discredited and pushed into the shadows. Big companies want to make as much as possible and could care less about their impact so they get the studies thrown out.

By next winter or the one after we are really going to see the effects as the majority of ice in the artic will be melted and ocean life will die off. The kelp is all dying right now, and the krill (which feed everything) depend on the algae that lives on the bottom of huge icebergs which are melting. Get ready! I talked with an atmospheric climatologist who works at JPL. This was around 9-10 years ago and he said we had 5 years before we hit the major point of no return. He was going to a meeting and said the officials wouldnt listen. If we stopped everything right now it would take 20 years to get back to some normal levels.
The EPA has also been pushed away and treated like dummies. We had rivers catching on fire from pollution in the 70’s, and the epa regs helped those issues. But hey if you want to make sure your kids and grandkids get horrible cancers, go ahead and say the epa are idiots and enviro regs do nothing. We are doing zero to stop the spread of cancer causing materials. The companies polluting are the ones making the cancer treatments. Big money. Enjoy the final days, it wont be long now. Stash food and water and be ready for the whole countries infrastructure to fail. Once they frack off our coast theyll trigger the triple junction and a good part of CA will have massive quakes and potential slumping of large land mass into the ocean. Look at how big the quakes have gotten in Oklahoma from fracking there!

Happyfish
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Happyfish
7 years ago
Reply to  Wwi

There’s no point to try and get your point across. Most Republicans just refuse to acknowledge the fact that science proves climate change is a real thing. Really it’s just sad for our children, and our children’s children. Them ignoring that will be our demise. It’s already projected when the sea level raises some 3 feet, millions will be left with out homes and billions of dollars worth of property will be flooded. And yes it’s also true that we can swing right back into a drought.

Guest
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Guest
7 years ago
Reply to  Wwi

too many frigin people here anyways, I’m sure after we’re all eradicated the earth will heal itself, kinda like chemotherapy I guess, and yes fracking is fracking horrible

Sparklemahn
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Sparklemahn
7 years ago
Reply to  Wwi

Thank you for your excellent comment.

Hermit of Livry
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Hermit of Livry
7 years ago

Climate change is real. And God’s word plainly states the reason.

“The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the haughty people of the earth do languish. The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant. Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.

Isaiah 24

Sparklemahn
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Sparklemahn
7 years ago

It will take a combination of faith and science to one day stop destroying the Earth.

onrust
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onrust
7 years ago

To Wwi – An excellent, well-reasoned comment. I took my first Human Ecology class in 1970. We participated in the First Earth Day 47 years ago. The book I used could be used for a class today regarding exactly the same issues. As a species, we refuse to be educated because education gets in the way of our own limited perceptions. And we refuse to believe that mother nature always bats last.

Capitalist pig
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Capitalist pig
7 years ago

Wwi. Stop trying to scare everyone everyone knows that the government scientists are corrupt because the government is giving them the billions of dollars to do their phony research and everybody knows all the weather models are not accurate that has been proven over and over so what books and fax are you talking about . Also just like with California’s ridiculous truck and bus rule that requires all trucks 2010 and older be taken off of the road and that is current law . The scientist who produced all of the data to support California’s phony claim admitted to getting his degree at a phony online college but that’s a wholeother story . To Noaa . Cooking the books in changing the fax to meet the Obama administration’s wishes and preconceived climate notions Just before the last climate deal or climate summit so don’t tell me about government facts and science and reading some more bullshit books because the public isn’t buying it anymore. When people like you talk all I hear is blah blah blah . I mean really now they are going to go after Cow farts that is a fact with that kind of bullshit you people are losing credibility like crazy ! keep it up because you’re losing

Capitalist pig
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Capitalist pig
7 years ago

Onrust you are sadly mistaken your god mother earth does not bat last !!!. God does!!! And more blah blah blah keep it up you’re losing

Honeydew Bridge Chump
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Honeydew Bridge Chump
7 years ago

The sun drives climate, nothing else.
We’re entering a solar minimum, low sunspots, this will last 15 years.
Winters will be colder for some time above 30* latitude.

Capitalist pig
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Capitalist pig
7 years ago

Yup