Strong Wind in S Sierra Mtns, California

California Highway Patrol reported a tree down on the road near the intersection of Peterson Road and Tollhouse Road 5SW Shaver Lake.

The second of a series of winter storms moved through central California from the afternoon of January 6 through the early morning of January 7. While this storm produced another round of rain and higher elevation snow across the area with many locations in the southern Sierra Nevada picking up between 1 to 2 inches of liquid precipitation, the main impact from this storm was strong winds were most noticed across the San Joaquin Valley where several trees and power lines were blown down or knocked over.