Travel Delays Are Expected After Record Snow Tapers in Western U.S.

U.S.|Travel Delays Are Expected After Record Snow Tapers successful Western U.S.

The worst of a wintertime tempest that brought record-setting snowfall and debased temperatures to portions of the Western United States this week appears to beryllium over, but question delays, frigid temperatures and lighter snowfall are inactive expected successful the coming days.

The National Weather Service successful Reno, Nev., said aboriginal Thursday that accumulating snowfall had mostly ended, with a fewer snowfall showers imaginable Thursday morning.

“The greater hazard will, however, beryllium from refreeze of moisture connected roadways, starring to icy question conditions crossed the Sierra and Western Nevada,” the Weather Service said, adding that, portion large highways had reopened, drivers should “prepare for dilatory question conditions crossed the portion for the greeting commute.”

The Weather Service predicted a chilly instauration to the caller twelvemonth successful Nevada, with the “coldest aerial successful astir 5 years” expected to get this weekend. Forecasters expected temperatures to dip into the azygous digits for “much of occidental Nevada” and beneath zero successful immoderate areas of the Sierra Nevada.

But small to nary much snowfall was expected, bringing alleviation to a portion that had been battered since the weekend. The Weather Service called for cloudy skies successful the Greater Lake Tahoe Area, with a flimsy accidental of snowfall showers Thursday nighttime and Friday greeting and wide skies implicit the weekend.

It would beryllium a comparatively calm extremity to a historically snowy month. The Central Sierra Snow Lab of the University of California, Berkeley, has recorded 210 inches of snowfall successful December, the area’s third-snowiest period successful recorded past and its snowiest December.

The blizzards wreaked havoc connected question this week, forcing a dayslong closure of an 81-mile agelong of interstate successful the Sierra Nevada, and making respective large highways and authorities roads successful Northern California impassable.

The sprawling wintertime tempest strategy extended crossed the West Coast up to Washington, wherever Seattle broke a grounds connected Monday for its lowest somesthesia connected that peculiar date. At Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, a debased of 17 degrees Fahrenheit connected Monday broke a 53-year-old record.

Nearly 300 inbound and outbound flights astatine the airdrome were canceled arsenic of aboriginal Thursday, with dozens much delayed, according to FlightAware, continuing a week of cancellations and delays.