October storm brings fresh snow to Fresno County mountains

FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- It was a dependable and scenic presumption of snowfall during the archetypal large tempest of the play astatine Shaver Lake connected Tuesday.
Terri Mejorado with the Fresno County Office of Emergency Services says rainfall and snowfall are ever a invited show successful the Central Valley.

"We emotion the rain. Rain fills up our reservoirs. It fills up our lakes. It brings snowfall to our higher elevations," Merjorado said.

Higher up the Fresno County mountains, respective inches of glistening achromatic snowfall are covering China Peak.

Video captured by our Action News Skycam astatine China Peak Ski Resort showing however overmuch snowfall had already fallen by 9 a.m.

A show proprietor Tim Cohee is much than excited astir with skis play astir the corner.

"There's thing different than bully quality astir this storm. The champion happening is it freezes the crushed and gets the crushed precise wet, truthful it volition freeze, which makes snowfall making adhere and enactment this time," Cohee said.

Cohee says they usually spot the archetypal snowfall aboriginal successful October but is present hopeful the edifice volition beryllium acceptable earlier.

Mejorado says postulation up the mountains is bully quality for section businesses and adds that being prepared and staying connected precocious alert is cardinal to support everyone safe.

She's successful changeless connection with the National Weather Service and section departments similar Public Works and says this tempest doesn't look to airs immoderate concern.

"This has been the archetypal 1 that benignant of has hung astir a small spot truthful we consciousness beauteous assured that the ungraded is adust capable that it tin sorb each this water," Mejorado said.

Mejorado says precocious exertion is helping them beryllium amended informed erstwhile monitoring pain scars pursuing erstwhile and caller fires, including the Garnet Fire that scorched astir 60,000 acres.

"It's a colored standard going from yellowish up to purple of the probability that we would person an contented connected that pain scar based connected the magnitude of rainfall that we are going to beryllium getting and the information that they person already captured from different agencies," Mejorado said.

China Peak Ski Resort usually opens during Thanksgiving week. Cohee is hoping to unfastened a week earlier with a commencement to the play similar this.

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