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Hikers aiming to visit California in the late summer for the Sierra Nevada will have to reschedule their journeys. In any case, the type of clothing you intend to bring on your journey.
The California National Weather Service has predicted that snow will fall this weekend in certain areas of the Sierra Nevada. Most snowfall in Yellowstone National Park is likely to occur in the park’s higher elevations.
The likelihood of snowfall over half an inch at Vogelsang is extremely low on Friday, but it increases to 25 percent at Tioga Pass after 5 a.m. on Saturday. In contrast to Vogelsang, Tuolumne Meadows is just at 10.
On Saturday at 5 o’clock, Vogelsang’s percentage reaches 40%, matching that of Tioga Pass. Half of that time is spent in Tuolumne Meadows.
Wolf is 5% in the morning and 20% in the afternoon. It stays at 20% after 5 a.m. on Sunday, the same as Tuolumne Meadows. Both Vogelsang and Tioga Pass are at 35% as of early Sunday.
Although the National Weather Service does not anticipate blizzard conditions, they are urging the public to be ready for what may come this weekend. The weather experts in Hanford, California think this may be a very rare occurrence. More than twenty years have passed without an August snowstorm.
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Storm hit the High Sierra at an extremely low hour, even for elevations above 8,000 feet. No snow has fallen in these areas in August in at least 20 years, according to a post on X by NWS Hanford. “Hikers and drivers should be mindful of this forecast,” the meteorologist said, adding that the amounts were small.
Based to what Juan Hernandez of The Inertia stated, temperatures at Truckee could drop to 29 degrees Fahrenheit. It usually doesn’t snow in these parts of California until October.
The unusually chilly weather this year, though, has changed everything. Extremely low temperatures, around 10-15 degrees below normal, have been observed. Not even on California’s highest peaks has this happened very often.
During the winter, conditions could be quite harsh if summer temperatures are this low. The regularfall of fresh snow on the slopes, however, may be quite beneficial to adventure sports enthusiasts.
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