Winter storm and flooding: What NWS Hanford is predicting

FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – The National Weather Service (NWS) is predicting imaginable flooding successful Yosemite Valley and surrounding communities and has issued a wintertime tempest informing for Kings Canyon, eastbound Fresno County, and different areas of the nationalist park.

According to NWS's Hanford office, Bass Lake, Mariposa, Fish Camp, Yosemite Valley, Oakhurst, Coarsegold, El Portal, and North Fork could person up to 3 inches of rain. The flood watch remains successful effect until precocious Saturday night.

The NWS has besides issued a Winter Storm Warning for Kings Canyon and Yosemite nationalist parks and the Upper San Joaquin River until 4 p.m. Sunday. They accidental snowfall could scope 3 feet and winds could gust arsenic precocious arsenic 55 mph.