First significant rain in more than 3 weeks expected, with wintery conditions around Lake Tahoe
Boosting what has been a mediocre start so far to the winter season, a storm from the Pacific Northwest is expected to bring widespread rain to the Bay Area on Thursday and blanket the Sierra Nevada with up to 3 feet of new snow.
The storm system would be the first significant rain or snow in Northern California in more than three weeks, and comes as the state is entering its fourth year of drought. A hoped-for storm fizzled last week, but this one is on track, forecasters say. If the rain lingers Thursday night into Friday morning as temperatures drop, there is an outside chance of light snow on higher Bay Area peaks, particularly Mount Hamilton in the Diablo Range, he added.
On Tuesday, the Northern Sierra Index, a collection of eight weather stations in the watersheds that feed key reservoirs like Shasta and Oroville, was at just 53% of normal precipitation. The last significant rain and snow event in Northern California was on Nov. 8, when San Francisco received .89 inches and the Sierra Nevada received about 2 feet.
Farms across the Central Valley, like cities, have seen big drops in the amount of water they receive from state and federal projects as reservoir levels have fallen. Farmers have had to pump more groundwater, and have been restricted from taking as much water from streams and rivers as in past years.
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