A major spring snowstorm briefly closed a key Northern California interstate and extended the ski season at Mammoth Mountain.

On Wednesday at 2:50 p.m. a winter storm watch was issued by the NWS Hanford CA valid from Friday 5 p.m. until Sunday 11 p.m. The watch is for Yosemite, Upper San Joaquin River, Kaiser to Rodgers Ridge,

The National Weather Service in Sacramento has upgraded the Winter Storm Watch to a Winter Storm Warning for the West Slope Northern Sierra Nevada and Western Plumas County,

As weekend storms bear down on Southern California, forecasters are beginning to pinpoint when the most rain will fall and how much the region is likely to get. “We will get rain, but we won’t get it on Friday,

Many of the state's resorts have closed for the season, but powder will fall on places like Palisades Tahoe and Mammoth.

At Phillips Station, a meadow tucked into the Sierra Nevada at 6,800 feet, state surveyors in late February pushed aluminum tubes into the snow and pulled up a reading that offered a sliver of good news: 28 inches of snow depth and 11 inches of snow water equivalent,

The National Weather Service has issued a winter storm warning for parts of central California, cautioning that snow accumulations could reach up to 14 inches in some areas, accompanied by wind gusts of up to 45 mph.

A strong spring storm will blanket the Sierra with a heavy snowfall, making travel difficult.