Snow is on the increase tonight through Friday night. Snowfall rates of 3 to 6 inches per hour will be possible during the height of the storm.
Snow totals through the weekend are expected to be potentially historic, especially in California with as much as 2 to 6 feet expected, possibly more on the highest peaks. Up to a foot will fall down to valley floors. Several feet of snow will fall in the Cascades and inland across the mountains of Utah, Colorado, northern Arizona and northern New Mexico.
Wind gusts of 75 to 85 mph will
be common across the southern Cascades, Sierra and western Nevada into
the weekend. Ridge top gusts in the Sierra could peak between 100 and
145 mph.
SHITT