You might not want to bother making plans to travel over major mountain passes for at least the next few days.
has been issued by the National Weather Service in Oxnard for the first time since at least 1983, according to their records. It’ll be in place from Friday morning to Saturday afternoon for our mountain areas stretching from Los Angeles across Ventura, all the way to Santa Barbara.A blizzard is a powerful snowstorm with wind gusts of at least 35 mph that result in visibility of a quarter mile or less.
This latest, rare storm is expected to produce wind gusts up to 75 mph and to drop as much as a foot of snow as low as 2,000 feet.Higher up in our mountains, this storm could produce the most snow seen over a 24-48 hour period since the 1980s, according to the NWS.Low snow levels mean the Grapevine , SR-14 to Antelope Valley, and SR-58 to Bakersfield could all be closed.
Caltrans has been salting the roads in preparation for the storm and has snow-clearing equipment on standby. Caltrans also said keeping the Grapevine open is a priority — however, icy conditions may keep the roads closed for a while.
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