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Heavy Snow in Kings Canyon Np, California

Heavy Snow March 11, 2023 – March 12, 2023 · Kings Canyon Np, California

What the National Weather Service wrote

The State Lakes SNOTEL (10419 feet) picked up an estimated 21 inches of new snowfall.

The wider storm

Following the departure of the warm and moist storm which produced widespread flooding across the area on March 9 and 10, another moist system moved through central California on March 11 and 12. While precipitation amounts were generally much lower with this system with most of the Sierra Nevada picking up between 1 and 2 inches of liquid precipitation and adjacent foothills picking up between a half inch and an inch of rainfall, the cooler unstable airmass on the back side of this system produced afternoon and evening thunderstorms across the lower elevations resulting in widespread flooding and wind damage across the San Joaquin Valley.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1076569. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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