A BAND OF RAIN AND SNOW WILL MOVE INTO THE NORTHERN SIERRA AND WESTERN NEVADA THIS MORNING...AND SPREAD SOUTH ACROSS MONO AND MINERAL COUNTIES TONIGHT AND SATURDAY. SNOW LEVELS WILL START ABOVE VALLEY FLOORS THIS AFTERNOON. SNOW LEVELS WILL DROP TO VALLEY FLOORS WITH THE PASSAGE OF A COLD FRONT TONIGHT AND EARLY SATURDAY. MOST AREAS WILL SEE A PERIOD OF 12 HOURS OR LESS OF PRECIPITATION. FOOTHILL LOCATIONS ABOVE 500O FEET COULD SEE SNOW ACCUMULATIONS OF UP TO 5 INCHES WITH HIGHER AMOUNTS IN THE HIGH SIERRA OF MONO COUNTY. SNOW ACCUMULATIONS IN LOWER VALLEYS OF WESTERN NEVADA WILL RANGE FROM LESS THAN AN INCH EAST OF LOVELOCK AND FALLON TO UP TO 3 INCHES ELSEWHERE. TRAVEL WILL BECOME SLICK AND HAZARDOUS NORTH OF INTERSTATE 80 BY THIS EVENING WITH SIMILAR CONDITIONS SPREADING TO OTHER AREAS OF WESTERN NEVADA OVERNIGHT INTO SATURDAY MORNING.
A BAND OF RAIN AND SNOW WILL MOVE INTO NORTHWEST NEVADA FRIDAY MORNING AND SPREAD SOUTH TO INTERSTATE 80 BY EARLY AFTERNOON. PRECIPITATION WILL CONTINUE TO PUSH SOUTH ACROSS MONO AND MINERAL COUNTIES FRIDAY EVENING AND SATURDAY. MOST AREAS WILL SEE A PERIOD OF 12 HOURS OR LESS OF PRECIPITATION. PRECIPITATION WILL BEGIN AS RAIN IN THE LOWER VALLEYS WITH LOCATIONS ABOVE 5000 FEET SEEING SNOW. SNOW LEVELS WILL DROP TO VALLEY FLOORS FROM HIGHWAY 50 NORTH FRIDAY EVENING AND SOUTH OF HIGHWAY 50 OVERNIGHT. FOOTHILL LOCATIONS ABOVE 500O FEET COULD SEE SNOW ACCUMULATIONS OF UP TO 5 INCHES OR SO WITH AREAS WEST OF HIGHWAY 395 IN MONO COUNTY GETTING HIGHER AMOUNTS. SNOW ACCUMULATIONS IN LOWER VALLEYS OF WESTERN NEVADA WILL RANGE FROM LESS THAN AN INCH EAST OF LOVELOCK AND FALLON TO UP TO 3 INCHES ELSEWHERE. TRAVEL WILL BECOME SLICK AND HAZARDOUS ACROSS FAR NORTHWEST NEVADA EARLY FRIDAY AND FROM HIGHWAY 50 NORTH BY FRIDAY EVENING. TRAVEL CONDITIONS WILL DETERIORATE OVERNIGHT FROM HIGHWAY 50 SOUTH.Note: In order to comply with National Weather Service safety tests, occasionally this product will display test alerts, which are normally conducted during calm, quiet weather.
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