We saw it coming for days, but it still was a shock to feel the extreme cold after such a warm fall.
Many awoke to the double whammy of record snow, then the cold Sunday and Monday across large swath of the US west coast, from Alaska to California, Nevada and the Prairies.
Cold Temperature Records Broken In California
After a storm on Friday another hit on Sunday bringing cold temperatures, rain and snow to much of the state, with more than 18 inches at Sierra-at-Tahoe ski resort, and 10 inches at Sugar Bowl.
Moreover, cold temperature records were set on Monday, Nov. 9th:
- 38°F at the Oakland Airport (previous recond in 2009 with 41°F)
- 38°F at Gilroy (previous record in 1986 with 34°F)
The same storm brought 0.11 inches of rain to downtown Los Angeles on Saturday, breaking a streak of 172 days with no measurable precipitation.
Record cold and snow plunge into Nevada
Several kinds of records snow fall were set over the same weekend across northern Nevada with single day snowfall records were broken in Reno, Carson City, and Yerington just to name a few.
Most of the area saw a general 3 to 5 inches and that was historic for the date. We normally see our first snowfall around the middle of November, but what’s so unusual is the amount that fell.
“To get that dramatic temperature change, and the amount of snow we did get is uncommon. We broke some single day snowfall records down in Yerington. They ended up with about 13 inches of snowfall at the Lyon County Sheriff’s office out there,” said NWS Reno Meteorologist Tony Fuentes
It’s not just the record snow, but also the extreme cold. Several cold records were broken all across the area, both at night and during the day.
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