WINTER STORM WARNING


NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HANFORD CA
1025 AM PDT THU APR 12 2012

A WINTER-LIKE STORM WILL CREATE HAZARDOUS TRAVEL OVER THE MOUNTAINS FROM LATE THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH FRIDAY NIGHT.

SIERRA NEVADA FROM YOSEMITE TO KINGS CANYON-TULARE COUNTY MOUNTAINS

WINTER STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 5 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 11 PM PDT FRIDAY.

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HANFORD WILL ALLOW A WINTER STORM WARNING TO REMAIN IN EFFECT FROM 5 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 11 PM PDT FRIDAY FOR THE HIGHER ELEVATIONS OF THE SOUTHERN SIERRA NEVADA.

* SNOW ACCUMULATIONS: RANGING FROM 8 TO 12 INCHES AT 4000 FEET TO TWO FEET OR MORE AT AND ABOVE 7000 FEET.

* TIMING: THE HEAVIEST SNOW IS EXPECTED BETWEEN 11 PM TONIGHT AND 5 PM FRIDAY.

* LOCATIONS INCLUDE: CAMP NELSON, GIANT FOREST, JOHNSONDALE, LODGEPOLE, SHAVER LAKE, YOSEMITE VALLEY, TUOLOMNE MEADOWS.

* WINDS: SOUTHWEST WINDS 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS TO AROUND 60 MPH OVER THE SIERRA CREST.

* IMPACTS: BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW...WINTER-LIKE DRIVING CONDITIONS...TRAVEL DELAYS AND POSSIBLE ROAD CLOSURES.

If future generations are to remember us with gratitude rather than contempt, we must leave them more than the miracle of technology. We must leave them a glimpse of the world as it was in the beginning, not just after we got through with it.
- Lyndon Johnson, on signing the Wilderness Act into law (1964)