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A severe winter storm approaching the Sierra Nevada and the Lake Tahoe Basin causes delays at the base of US 50 in Meyers, Calif,. on Friday, January, 4, 2008. A fierce arctic storm pounded California on Friday, threatening to soak mudslide-prone canyons already charred by wildfires and to paralyze the mountains with deep snow. (AP Photo/Chad Lundquist)
Bring chains if you are headed to the mountains…as much as 8 inches are expected in the mountains above Lake Tahoe and up to five inches at lake level.
Three storms are about to blitz the Sierra making for hazardous travel off-and-on into the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, with several inches of snow expected around Lake Tahoe and a mix of snow and mostly rain in the Reno area. The second storm is expected to move into the Sierra late Friday, and another one is possible as a colder system arrives on Sunday.