Thanks to the run of winter storms this month, ski resorts in Lake Tahoe and the Sierra Nevada are digging out from a record ...

After an unusually warm early October, the winds have turned cold and the peaks of the Sierra Nevada have turned white. The ...

Two major factors affecting the Sierra Nevada bighorn recovery are climate and predation by mountain lions. As the climate ...

Snow is headed to the Midwest and the West ahead of Thanksgiving, while rain will target the East Coast on Thanksgiving Day.

Sacramento’s first real storm of the 2024-25 water year dropped in on Friday evening, dumping rain throughout the region and snow in the Sierra Nevada mountains. Downtown Sacramento saw 0.35 ...

Warm autumn colors are gracing the Sierra Nevada right now. Northern Nevadans can walk among the red, yellow and orange leaves for a limited time before the mountains trade their fall foliage for ...

But none were quite as formidable as the snowy granite mountain range rising east of Sacramento. Getting through the Sierra Nevada would require ... west of Cisco. As fall approached, Chinese ...

Wind gusts could also top 140 mph (225 kmh) in the Sierra Nevada mountains. About two feet of ... after midnight on Friday. Snow could fall at a rate of three to five inches (7.6 cm to 12.7 ...

The Sierra Nevada wring moisture from winter storms that develop over the Pacific and travel west with the jet stream, while the Rocky Mountains shield the state ... In the spring and fall, ...

A fall storm brought an inch of snow in the Sierra Nevada over a 24 hour period on ... bringing snow to mountains in California and the Pacific Northwest and prompting the closure of part of ...