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FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- The National Weather Service Hanford has issued a blizzard informing for parts of the Central Sierra Nevada mountains.
The informing is successful effect starting astatine elevations supra 5,000 from 4 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 29 to 10 a.m. Sunday, March 3.
An estimated 4 to 8 feet of snowfall is expected to autumn with upwind gusts up to 65 mph. The precocious winds are expected to make whiteout conditions.
Along with the blizzard warning, a wintertime tempest informing has been placed astatine elevations 2,500ft and above.
Below are the circumstantial locations that volition beryllium impacted by either the blizzard informing oregon the wintertime tempest warning.
Here are the circumstantial locations that volition beryllium affected by an upcoming blizzard informing and wintertime tempest warning.
How the affected communities are preparing:
Fresno and Madera Counties person already began preparting
In Fresno County, astatine slightest 3 to 4 feet of snowfall is expected to deed areas similar Shaver Lake. Officials are learning from past year's acquisition of dense snowfall to hole for this weekend's storm.
PG&E says entree is their main concern, particularly if immoderate powerfulness outages happen. The Fresno County Office of Emergency Services is moving with different instrumentality enforcement agencies to person other instrumentality connected manus implicit the weekend.
RELATED: Fresno Co. officials impulse preparedness up of blizzard informing for Sierra Nevada
It was the calm earlier the tempest successful Shaver Lake Wednesday with lone patches of leftover snowfall connected the crushed from the past wintertime storm.
In Madera County, the Sheriff's Office has activated its exigency operations halfway and person begun pre-positioning instrumentality and hunt and rescue personnel.
Residents are urged to enactment disconnected the roadworthy unless its an exigency and to retrieve to battalion supplies including tyre chains.
RELATED: Madera region residents cogwheel up for incoming terrible storm
While bluish skies hung implicit Madera County connected Wednesday afternoon, radical astatine the ACE hardware store were gearing up for the terrible upwind expected.
