© Associated Press.Winter weather California
The fast-moving, blustery storm wasn't expected to last long, but it was enough to require chain controls on some trans-Sierra highways and add to staggering snowfall totals left by an exceptional series of winter storms.
"A blast back to some wintry weather today with wind and snowfall," the Mammoth Mountain ski resort wrote on its web page. The early morning temperature was just 18 degrees (-8 Celsius).
Like most Sierra resorts, Mammoth doesn't need anymore snow after recording 705 inches (17.9 meters) at its main lodge and 885 inches (22.5 meters) at its summit.
In the Lake Tahoe region, the Palisades Tahoe resort reported that early morning winds hit 100 mph (161 kph) before calming down.
Spring conditions are expected to return later in the week, the National Weather Service said.
Nowt but wishful thinking, the upper atmosphere strongly suggests otherwise, something odd is going on ( a ring of depressions are now active and spreading around the Northern hemisphere between 50 and 40 degrees North ) and it's feasible that cold air could actually sink further South.