A spring storm that drenched the Bay Area and closed mountain highways set a single-day snowfall record in the Sierra Nevada.
TRUCKEE -- A weekend spring storm that drenched the San Francisco Bay Area and closed Northern California mountain highways also set a single-day snowfall record for the season on Sunday in the Sierra Nevada .The wet weather system had mostly moved out of the state by Sunday morning but officials warned that roads would remain slick after around two feet of snow fell in some areas of the Sierra.
4 inches of snowfall on Sunday beat the second snowiest day of the season â March 3 â by 2.6 inches, according to the lab.Treacherous driving conditions on Saturday forced the closure of several highways near Lake Tahoe, including Interstate 80 over the Donner Summit.Flood advisories were issued for parts of the Bay Area, where up to an inch of rain fell while temperatures dipped into the low 40s, the National Weather Service said.
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