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A winter storm watch will be in effect Saturday afternoon through late night, advised the National Weather Service today. That means get your boards out as "there is a potential for a combination of significant snow, strong winds and dense fog that may impact travel," they said. The first snow could fall on the northern slopes of local mountains in Los Angeles and Ventura Counties and could lower snow levels from 5500 to 3500 feet by late Saturday. But snow up there can be mean rain down here in the city. Not only that, add in the possibility of 30 to 45 MPH wind with gusts up to 60 MPH. If you're driving over the grapevine tomorrow, beware: the 5 Freeway in Frazier Park could have "near white out conditions."
Snow Could Fall on Local Mountains this Weekend
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Begley is a raving nutball and he is dead wrong. StrokerMcgurk
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Guess my trip to Sanger, CA isn't going to happen. It already looked like it was going to fall through, anyway. Oh well. Time to turn on the heater and make some hot chocolate.
That looks like a great road trip, msmerymac!
Remember, this is all an advisory. In weather, nothing is for sure until it happens so I would stay tuned to weather reports if you are really wanting to go.
Also, the advisory starts on Saturday afternoon, so if you're going tonight or in the morning, you might be fine.
We were planning on leaving Sunday morning and coming back that night. We could always go a really roundabout way and take the 101 back down if things get really bad. I'm afraid of being stranded and missing work Monday, though, especially since I'm taking vacation time over Christmas.
My boyfriend's always wanted to go to see the laying of the wreath on the General Grant Tree in Sanger. We didn't know you had to book early, though, and all the buses they're taking up there are full. We're on a waiting list. We could go anyway, but I don't relish putting chains on my tires (which they recommended) and my boyfriend's car doesn't have an ipod jack, which makes it less than ideal for road trips. ;-) We're playing it by ear. I hope they don't actually close down the Grapevine, though, if it comes to that.
Correct me if I'm wrong, isn't General Grant Tree in Kings National Park and not in Sanger, which is about an hour out?
I've never been to Grant, but did see the nearby General Sherman Tree this summer in Sequoia National park.
Supposedly it's about 20 miles from Sanger. But I haven't been to either yet, so I couldn't say definitively.
There's a tree in Mexico that is bigger than the General Grant tree, but not as big as the General Sherman tree. Haven't seen that either though!