Fog and snow covered Hollywood Sign, California Aude Guerrucci / Portal 02/24/2023
The weekend in the US state of California is marked by weatherrelated unrest. For the Storms that ravaged the entire state They left nearly 85,000 homes and businesses without power in the Los Angeles area Saturday (25th), bringing snow and cold to higher elevations and still punishing the plains with heavy rain and hail.
Flooding and heavy snow closed sections of Interstate 5, the main thoroughfare that runs north from Los Angeles. One of the blockages was on the runway known as Grapevine, which had accumulated a lot of snow. Other points south of the same street on the outskirts of town have been closed due to flooding, according to the California Department of Transportation.
To the north, a sharp drop in temperature was forecast for San Francisco. The National Weather Service has issued a warning to residents of the Sacramento state capital, urging them to avoid travel between Sunday (26th) and Wednesday (1st), a period when rain and snow will return after a brief lull on Saturday (25th). , to avoid.
“Extreme snow exposure and high winds will result in extremely dangerous driving conditions, with likely road closures and widespread infrastructure impacts,” the agency said on Twitter.
The series of storms forecast for this Sunday could see gusts of up to 80 km/h in the Sacramento Valley and up to 110 km/h in the neighboring Sierra Nevada mountains. Yosemite National Park is closed through Wednesday due to severe weather.
The unusual conditions were caused by a massive lowpressure system from the Arctic, explained meteorologist Bryan Jackson of the Weather Prediction Center (NWS) in College Park, Maryland.
“This is a rare case of a cold, significant storm,” Jackson said, particularly in Southern California, an area known for sunny days, beaches and palm trees.
So the sight of snowflakes falling around the Hollywood sign on Mount Lee in the hills above Los Angeles must have delighted many residents of the city last Friday (24). The information is from Portal.