[UPDATE 12:33 a.m.: Chains Required on Multiple Main Highways] Snow Is Impacting Major Roads in Northwestern California
Snow falling on Hwy 199 this morning.[Crop of a photo from a Caltrans Traffic cam
UPDATED SUNDAY at 8 a.m. at the following link:
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A winter storm sweeps eastward across much of northwestern California this morning. Travelers will find snow today on many mountain passes and possibly into areas not normally impacted.
The National Weather Service in Eureka predicts, “Heavy snow is expected this morning across many interior locations in Northwest California. Snow will taper off to showers this afternoon only to re-intensify tonight again.”
Snow could drop quite low today. The NWS warns, “Snow levels this morning could be as low as 500 to 1000 feet in northern Mendocino, Humboldt, Trinity, and Del Norte counties while farther south into Lake County snow levels will remain slightly higher.”
By afternoon snow levels could rise, but tonight the flakes could possibly drop possibly “to near sea level in Humboldt and Del Norte counties overnight.”
Graphic from the National Weather Service in Eureka shows possible snow accumulation through the weekend.
We’ll keep updating this list below in green.
Major Highways–Here’s What We Know:
(Most information below is from Caltrans’ Quick Map. If you are heading to Oregon, check out their similar site. If you are heading to Nevada, check their similar site.)
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- Interstate 5: UPDATE Sunday 9:05 a.m.: All trucks traveling northbound on I-5 are being screened for chains at Fawndale, 10 miles north of Redding. Trucks must have chains in order to proceed north. UPDATE Sunday 12:20 a.m.: chains are required in a number of areas from Redding to the Oregon border. There are multiple accidents.
- Hwy 1: Open UPDATE 11:05 a.m.: Open
- Hwy 3: Open mostly UPDATE 11:05 a.m.: State Route 3 is closed, at Scott Mountain, due to winter weather conditions. UPDATE Sunday 12:20 a.m.: Chains required on and off from 7 miles north of Hayfork to 8 miles south of Douglas City.
- Hwy 20: Open UPDATE 11:05 a.m.: Snowy. Please carry chains.
- Hwy 36: Open UPDATE 9:05 a.m.: Chains required on and off from 1.3 miles east of Bridgeville to Platina.
- Hwy 96: Open
- Hwy 101: UPDATE 9:05 a.m.: Open to one lane near Crescent City from Mill Creek Access Rd to Enderts Beach/Humboldt Road due to snow. There is also heavy snow reported on the roadway in northern Humboldt County. UPDATE Sunday 12:20 a.m.: snow is sticking multiple areas from the Humboldt/Mendocino line to Ridgewood Grade south of Willits
Snow sprinkled over Last Chance Relay. [Photo from a Caltrans Traffic cam]
- HWY 162 (Covelo Road): Open
- Hwy 169 (Klamath): Open
- Hwy 199: Open UPDATE 10: 15 p.m.: Chains required off and on from 6.5 miles north of Gasquet to 2 miles south of Oregon State Line.
- Hwy 211: Open with one way traffic because of earthquake damage on Ferndale Bridge.
- Hwy 254 (Avenue of the Giants): Open except closed due to flooding from Sorenson Rd to Holmes Flat Rd.
- Hwy 255: Open
- Hwy 271: Open (NOTE: Caltrans District 1 Facebook says that it is closed near Ebert Lane (PM 18.32) due to downed trees and utility lines. However, Caltrans QuickMap does not show a closure.)
- Hwy 299: Open UPDATE 12:33 a.m.: Chains required from Lord Ellis to Berry Summit. UPDATE 12:20 a.m. Sunday: Chains required from 11 miles east of Douglas City to 19 miles west of Redding.
Humboldt County Roads: No information at this time.
Trinity County Roads: No information at this time.
Mendocino County Roads: No information at this time.
Tips for Travel: Please note that if you have to stuck while traveling in winter weather, that an inexpensive heater can be fashioned from a tin and tea candles. The whole heating device takes up very little space.
Consumer Affairs magazine describes how the kit works and why you should use it. They say,
If you’re trapped in your car, running the engine to generate heat is a bad idea for two reasons: one, even starting with a full tank you’ll run out of gas in a few hours, thus leaving you unable to move even when the road eventually clears; and two, if falling or drifting snow or ice blocks your car’s exhaust pipe, you and everyone else in the passenger compartment can quickly die of carbon monoxide poisoning.
Fortunately, it’s easy to make heat without running the engine, and you can put together an emergency automotive heating kit for less than $5. You only need four items: a large-ish metal can with a removable lid, a supply of metal-cup “tea light” candles, some matches, and waterproof resealable sandwich or freezer bags to hold the candles and matches inside the metal can.
(See here for a complete description on how to create this kit to carry with you.)
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Heavy snow is falling on sherwood road- will likely cause a closure today
I got a shotgun a rifle and a 4 wheel drive o and fuel firewood food generator and a d6 cat and a county boy can survive
Don’t forget to stock up on BOOZE!
Don’t forget toilet paper, milk, and bread
Rolling papers.
“Climate is what you expect. Weather is what you get.”
-Mark Twain
Snowing on the ridge and well down toward the ocean in Shelter Cove now. Good time to stay home and figure out what to bake today.
I would suggest not driving if you don’t have to.
I think everyone should go out with their cars and drive as fast as they can go……with their eyes closed….what could possibly go wrong??? Just trying to be helpful.
Drive fast n take chances! That’s always been the motto…right Zippy! ?
Drive fast, swerve a lot
Hit the gas, turn left
Im starting to think that’s what most people do all the time anyways
Yes, I was just making a humorous observation on what seems to be the norm.
Look on the bright side, only six more days to go. For the benefit of all you LSD hippie, climate change, meteorologists, this is called winter. Lesson over, you can go back to cheering the war in the Ukraine. Hey, did you hear about the Ukrainian politician’s wife busted at the Hungarian border? Twenty eight million dollars in her luggage. Gosh, I wonder where that cash came from?????
nationalpost.com/news/world/wife-of-former-ukrainian-politician-caught-with-28m-in-cash-at-hungarian-border-reports
A series of similar articles on sketchy sites a year ago reported this. With a quick search, I can’t find it in one reputable site including conservative ones such as the Wall Street Journal. I find that concerning.
The story originated in Ukrainian news. They have pics of the suitcases full of cash. You may need to use a translater to read it:
https://news.obozrevatel.com/economics/fea/zhenu-pravoj-ruki-avakova-obvinili-v-vyivoze-28-mln-iz-ukrainyi-eks-nardep-vse-oproverg-detali-skandala.htm
This one is from the India Times, relayed via MSN:
https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/world/former-ukrainian-mp-s-wife-tries-to-flee-country-with-28-million-dollars-1-3-million-euros-in-cash/ar-AAViPTl
I don’t know how you feel about that site, but disregarding news that doesn’t appear in the MSM is dangerous for truth.
For example, I understand that WSJ may be considered conservative as it is definitely right of the NYT, but in my opinion, both are mouth pieces for different government agencies and narratives.
We all need to be careful about ‘fake news.’ But independent journalism should not need to be vetted by the old guard.
By the way. I love your site. ❤️
The sources that are reporting this, such as the India Times, that I checked are poor at fact checking. MSN was the closest I could find to reliable (it’s on par with Fox News in my opinion). They, however, did not independently verify that this occurred. They only reported that other sites reported it.
Only thing I can find is the President of Afghanistan taking flight with money after Trump dumped support for Afghanistan.
(From $1 to $170 million dollars… apparently nobody knows).
Rich people fleeing war torn areas with large amounts of cash is sadly normal.
When the rich people fleeing are the direct family members of politicians, however, it is often a reflection of intense corruption, such as in the Uktaine.
https://www.transparency.org/en/cpi/2022/index/ukr
Ukraine is not exactly a bastion of free thought or fair laws.
Her husband was a Russian puppet who started the conflict against ukraine. Funny how she wasn’t headed to RUSSIA! Ukraine was invaded and wants to be free of Russian backed political figures because they are corrupt and this story proves it. America should pay attention to Putin’s allies such as the Trump family. Ya know the same family that is supported by Saudi Arabia (hotels, golf courses) where the terrorist of 9-11 got their visas.
yea the former guy’s wife was stealing money. the current guy was elected to get rid of the crooked former guy. its a lot to follow, but the former guy got ousted because he was a crook. the people, by an admittedly small margin, ousted the crook and voted for zelensky because he wasn’t a politician. they hoped he could do something better. who knows what goes on in the depths of their government, but zelensky has earned the widespread support of his countrymen.
meanwhile, our former guy liked their former guy. and putin liked their former guy a whole lot better than he likes this guy. our former guy liked ukraine’s former guy so much that instead of standing up for zelensky upon his election, knowing full well Ukraine was already occupied by russia on the eastern side and therefor really needed international support, but our former guy instead said, ‘but i need a favor tho.’ and issued a really lame request. who cares about a political scandal of ours relative to people being invaded and killed? it was a lame reqest even if it had been a mostly legitimate request, but it wasnt.it was also a bold face request for zelensky to be corrupt. he refused. now people say oh, ukraine has corruption in its midst so they arent worthy of our help. they are trying to move away from corrupition when our PRESIDENT blackmailed them to get them to be corrupt and they refused.
and furthermore, our former guy was being corrupt in his ask AND it was a violaton of OUR democracy as well. He had zero constitutional authority to withhold that money for any reason. it wasnt his, it was congress’s money. [edit]
Sadly So is rich people starting war torn areas
Rich people fleeing with tons of other people’s money has been SOP since the invention of money. Usually the rich thieves end up living in counties where other rich people protect the recently arrived rich people.
The wall street journal is conservative. Omg you are far far left then.
It was stolen. She is married to the asshole who started all this shit in Ukraine back in 2014. It goes to show how corrupt Russian backed separatist truly are and the current need for Ukraine to be free from Putin’s puppets. A warning to America that Russia is not friendly, corrupt and only wishes to control people to plunder their resources.
Surprised conservative media would want to acknowledge that in press. Then again we now know Fox, Newsmax and other conservative news outlets are just soap opera’s and not fact as presented in the Dominion lawsuit. Literally lying to their viewers for ratings, talk about sheeple!
Come on now, so is cnn and the rest of em, democrats republicans two sides same coin.
lol, what is with ya’ll think’in CNN is anything to do with my comments. Is that some conservative plug for ya’ll when facts are iterated. Screw the two party system I am an independant not in either herd.
Reading comprehension must not be your strong point
And yet you reliably spout Democrat talking points…
Fact is my spewage. Being on the ground as a young adult and seeing Russia’s actions against its neighboring countries since the fall of the Iron Curtain. Not bullshit lying spewage done knowingly like most of the commenters who get their real life experience through a TV screen.
The base problem with a 2 party system is that with an even number of parties the chances of a dead lock is much higher than with an odd number of parties. The ruling class know this so they go out of their way to make sure there is only 2 parties. With 2 parties and with a culture war is becomes easier to distract the people from the class war that is going on.
Exactly heads they win tails we lose, people need to realize it is us against them not them against each other, divide and conquer, no one in the government gives a lick about any one of us except for our taxes and votes that’s what gives them the power.
What gets me is that a certain political party used to jump up and down about the evils of the Soviet Union “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.” Now they are all cool and groovy with Russia, ignoring the fact that the evil bastards running Russia are the same ones who were junior officials that were running the Soviet Union.
It’s like that crappy Chinese restaurant that every town seems to have. The food is greasy, bland and just plain nasty and every couple of years they change the name and print new menus. The food is just as bad but instead of “Golden Dragon” its now “Szechuan Garden”.
Truly amazing how the reaganettes are embracing communists propaganda.
Let’s just wait and see how it all plays out. The track record of certain individuals isn’t that great. Sort of like the ones calling Covid shots safe and effective. How’d that work out? Oh and that Covid didn’t escape from a lab, the FBI thinks otherwise now. Bakmuht just fell. Let’s see if Russia has conquered Ukraine or if Ukraine has pushed Russia back to its border in a year. Being a realist and critical thinker, my money is unfortunately on Russia.
The facts have played out since the fall of the iron curtain. This time it’s lead to a war like in Chechnya except this one is backed by Western weapons. This one is still holding on to its independent political party and leadership. It didn’t get sacked like the other Russian influenced countries. All of which maintained its pro Russian political parties. Millions of Ukrainians are fighting for freedom from a communist regime. Slava Ukraine!
Please stop your nonsense
You have an issue with history or proven fact?
You have yet to provide either.
Russia invades Georgia (the country), Chechnya and now Ukraine. I already know the history. The soap opera you call news seems to NOT discuss historical fact. Fox = As the Conservative World Turns. Newsmax = The Young and the Conservatives. Steve Bannon media = Only One Conservative Life to Live.
And that’s just a lie.
It’s historical fact.
Or Ptomaine Tavern.
You must really have it bad…
And CNN and other liberal networks are not soap operas . Give me a break.
I don’t care for media much but when it hits the court system. Is CNN being sued for deformation. Did CNN promote rioting at the capital to overthrow a valid election of we the people. I am not a fan of CNN but facts are facts. Millions of Americans have been mislead, fact!
HEAVY snow a couple of hours ago in Walnut /Ridgewood area. Now just light snow. But still…SNOW!
It snowed in Fortuna again. I feel so bad for all those that are impacted by this in a negative way. Be safe out there, stay off the roads if you can. Check on your neighbors, especially the frail and elderly.
Map omits siskiyou county entirely, nice partisan mapping data
Siskiyou seems to be covered by the Medford OR office: https://www.weather.gov/mfr/
It’s not partisan. The National Weather Service in Eureka has an area of coverage that doesn’t include Siskiyou. I’m not sure but I believe the National Weather Service in Medford covers Siskiyou County.
No snow in Benbow. Heavy rain. 9:30 AM
Snowing in Petrolia this morning, and more accumulation visible on the ridges so around. The Wildcat is likely snowy and icy, so take care or stay home!
Hey reporters thank you!! Was wondering if any of you can or have talked with PGE about the extended power outages… It’s been over a week for some of us and wondering if you have any better insight than 1800 numbers can offer . And again, thank you
PGE doesn’t care about us in Humboldt County , just try and call live person . Break up Pge now . We need local company to run it. I t doesn’t make any difference if we are supposed to be an island with generating capacity if they can’t keep the lines up .
and a local company could do it how ? especially with ‘island’ power available for only part of eureka
That’s for sure, my neighbor’s power lines have been blocking our road since the first day of snow last week. Luckily I have access via another right away off the other side of the Hill. Some of the other neighbors went down with bolt cutters, cut some wires so they’d be low enough to drive over and have been driving over them for over a week..
A local power company is a good suggestion, Redding has one.
Obviously you have no idea what you are talking about. Not only is there a bunch of damage to lines but there are trees down everywhere blocking roads to get to the lines. A lot of these lines are in accessible which means they are gonna have to fly in the poles and equipment. So like the good old saying goes, if you don’t know what you are talking about just stfu ?
With 3′ to 4′ of snow in the mountains… it’s a bit tough to see when PG&E will get in those areas to repair. So far, this winter is harkening back to the 1950’s and 1960’s.
(Side Thought) This severity of this winter might be due to the Hunga Volcanic eruption of 2022. Eruption released the biggest cloud of volcanic debris (so far) in this century.
>> “As big as it gets: Hunga volcano comparable to Krakatoa” (Lawrence Lab Web)https://www.llnl.gov/news/big-it-gets-hunga-volcano-comparable-krakatoa
Someone needs to make sure that volcano pays some carbon taxes to offset and mitigate its footprint.
It was just as bad in 1972 and 1988 and many other times in the past.
They say sleepy joe sent the payment 2 ukraine! So no power 4 our own people this week!
what a shocker!
Withholding $400 million in previously approved military aid to ukraine. Oops, no, that was Donny, seeking political dirt plus wink-nod “head on in” to Puty. Shocker!
Pretty sure the dirty little secret is that AT and T owns the poles and pge pays to use them.
Thanks for the responses but I was wondering if @kymkemp or any other reporters could or have talked to anyone higher up in the PGE food chain
There’s way lot more snow in rio dell than fortuna
Hwy 36 Carlotta around 830
It did snow at sea level this morning.
Yup… for about 5 minutes !
I don’t know about the rest of you people, but I am getting real sick of snow and having to drive in it when necessary. Stay safe everyone.
I’m with you, Martin!
Its beautiful. Amazing.
If ya dont like snow move to a different zone.
Let yourself feel humbled by it.
We only fool ourselves that we are in any sort of control over things in our lives.
Personally Im enjoying thinking of having a huge flowing river to swim in later in the year this season ?and the general blessing of water.
Learn to roll with it, otherwise the next 10 years are going to be extremely difficult for ya. These winters will become the norm as the Pacific warms. The uptick in dead whales and appearance of warm water sea turtles are sure signs. Nature tells us whats happening.
As one of the wisest womyn Ive met has always said….
Adapt or Die.
Those of you who know her have seen her do it as a cheer, cheerleading style.
You can still get sick of snow while you’re rolling with it.
Exactly. Been rolling with it for 45 years in these mountains and don’t need a lecture. I have drifts from the roof as tall as me, and paths across the yard deep as my waist. In the past week I’ve shoveled literally tons of snow to keep my deck from collapsing. Have to put on my Wellies to put seed in the bird feeder. It’s okay and it’s also a pain in the ass.
Warm water doesnt make snow.
No, but warming ocean changes the jet stream.
Any updates on SoHum Roads?
To the best of my knowledge (though this isn’t official) Dyerville Loop is clear, Alderpoint Road is clear, Shelter Cove, Whitethorn, and Briceland are clear. And Bell Springs is clear to Island Mt.