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Here is the Carson City area road report for the week of Jan. 18-24, 2016: Utility work will continue Monday through Friday from 7 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., with possible flagger controlled traffic at the following locations:

A series of wet winter storms will impact the Sierra and Carson City region this Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend through at least Tuesday with the potential of several feet of snow in the mountains and up to a half inch of rain in the valleys, according to the National Weather Service.

Unsettled weather will continue to make its way into the Sierra and Carson City region with high winds moving into the area tonight, according to the National Weather Service. A Wind Advisory is in effect for the Carson City region from 7 tonight until 4 a.m. Friday.

Meanwhile, a Winter Weather Advisory for Lake Tahoe and the Sierra has been issued for this afternoon through Friday morning.

Rain and possible snow showers are headed our way, with a weather system that should begin arriving overnight, according to the National Weather Service. For Carson City, forecasters are saying it will be more rain than snow in the capital city Wednesday and if there is snow, it will be less than a half inch.

When is the next storm? It looks like a weak storm will brush to the north of the area Tuesday with little to no precipitation for the Sierra and western Nevada, according to the National Weather Service.

The next decent chance for rain and snow will be Wednesday, but just how much will be uncertain.

Here is the Carson City area road report for the week of Jan. 11-17, 2016: Utility work will continue Monday through Friday as indicated below, 7 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., with possible flagger controlled traffic at the following locations:

The storm door remains open with multiple and relatively weak systems expected to keep daytime high temperatures below 40 around Carson City and impact the Sierra through next week, according to the National Weather Service.

Carson City emergency crews have remained busy this morning responding to vehicle crashes, including one near the high school, one at Carson Meadows and Robinson Street and on Stewart and Musser streets in which a four-year-old got a bump on the head in a two-vehicle crash.

It's slow going out there on the highways and roads around Carson City this morning with freezing fog and early morning snow showers. The National Weather Service in Reno says the fog will stick around this morning and has issued a freezing fog weather advisory.

Ken Caldeira, a leading climate scientist at the Carnegie Institution for Science at Stanford University, who attended the recent Paris Climate Conference, will be the keynote speaker Friday at Tahoe South’s Operation Sierra Storm Meteorologist Conference.

A moderate winter storm is forecast to impact the Sierra and western Nevada late Monday night through Tuesday, prompting a Winter Weather Advisory for the Lake Tahoe Basin. Snow is in the forecast for Carson City, with 2 to 4 inches expected, according to the National Weather Service.

Here is the Carson City area road report for the week of Jan. 4-10, 2016: Utility work will continue Monday through Friday as indicated below, 7 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., with possible flagger controlled traffic at the following locations:

Temperatures around Carson City will remain cold through the weekend, with many locations across the Sierra and Western Nevada experiencing single digits and teens early Saturday morning.

If you’re out and about between Carson City, Reno, Virginia City and Lake Tahoe, be sure to bundle up. Temperatures will begin to fall into the teens and remain below average, with lows in the single digits, through the weekend, according to the National Weather Service in Reno.

Here is the Carson City area road report for the week of Dec. 28 through Jan. 3, 2016. Race Track Road will be closed to through traffic between Bigelow Drive and Schulz Drive for the entire week.

Snow showers will return to the Sierra and Carson City area as a weather system, known as a "slider" moves into the region Monday morning, according to the National Weather Service in Reno.

UPDATE THURSDAY: Due to the cold temperatures associated with the storm, the Emergency Warming Shelter at Fuji Park will be open tonight, Dec. 24, in addition to the other three days it is scheduled to be open, Christmas night through Dec. 27, said Beth McCready-White, client services manager for Friends in Service Helping, also known as FISH.

With Monday’s last blast of fall, the first day of winter brings less gusty winds and clearing skies before another fast moving, cold winter storm arrives in the Lake Tahoe and the Carson City region Thursday, Christmas Eve.

UPDATE 6PM: NV Energy reports three outages with 16 customers without power as of 6 p.m., in Carson City. There's one power outage in Douglas County with 242 customers without power and 13 outages with 299 customers without power in Washoe County.
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NV Energy reports more than 20 power outages around Carson City affecting more than 2,000 customers as of 4:50 p.m. Monday.

High winds around Carson City this Monday afternoon have caused trees to uproot, limbs to snap, fences to topple and a trampoline that blew into this backyard power pole in the 900 block of Chernus Drive.

Gusting winds uprooted a tree on North Carson Street in Carson City late Monday morning, blocking one lane of traffic.
The large pine blew over at around 11:40 a.m., causing traffic to back up. The tree will have to be cut up and the road lane is expected to be blocked for at least an hour. Carson City Fire Department has responded and Carson City sheriff's deputies are redirecting traffic.

Here is the Carson City area road report for the week of Dec. 21-27, 2015: The Nevada Department of Transportation will continue work on the construction of an auxiliary lane on southbound I-580 from the Eastlake Boulevard interchange to the N. Carson Street off-ramp. There will be nightly lane closures from 7 p.m. to 5:30 a.m. beginning Sunday evening through Wednesday morning.

A weather system will pass through the area late tonight and Saturday with mountain snow and a mix of rain and snow around Carson City, according to the National Weather Service.

The weather pattern will be relatively modest compared to the ones headed into the region next week that will bring rain, snow and the potential for a white Christmas around Carson City.

Carson City again woke up this morning to snowy, icy roads, causing headaches for motorists and an overall slow going on local roads, highways and I-580. Cheri Fletcher, transportation supervisor for the Carson City School District notes Carson City schools are open today with school buses running with chains on this morning so there may be delays.

The National Weather Service has issued a winter storm warning for the Greater Lake Tahoe region. Remaining in effect until 10pm tonight, expect heavy snow through 7pm with accumulations reaching two to three inches per hour in some areas. The forecast is is calling for 12 to 20 inches of snow above 7000 feet, and 8-12 inches below (Carson City is listed at an elevation of 4,802 feet.

Another winter storm is on the way bringing strong and gusty winds and a brief period of moderate to heavy snow on Sunday in the Sierra and then falling to the valley floor into Carson City by Sunday night.

Winds will begin to increase late Saturday night with the strongest winds anticipated Sunday morning and early afternoon, according to the National Weather Service, which which has posted a Wind Advisory and Winter Weather Advisory for the Carson City region and a Winter Storm Warning for the Sierra and Lake Tahoe.

Carson City residents woke up to at least an inch or more of snow Friday morning, which made for slow going along local roads.

A Winter Weather Advisory remains in effect until 10 a.m. this morning for the Reno, Carson City, Carson Valley, Virginia City and Dayton areas.

Blustery conditions are expected to kick up ahead of the first of two winter storm systems that will bring heavy snow to Lake Tahoe and rain with the potential for snow showers around Carson City.

A High Wind Warning for Reno, Sparks, Carson City, Carson Valley and Dayton areas is in effect from midnight through 4 p.m. Thursday.

Two back to back winter storm systems that could bring the heaviest snow to Lake Tahoe and the Sierra in more than a year, gusty winds and a good rain soaking around Carson City should begin to arrive late Wednesday into Thursday, according to the National Weather Service in Reno.

Monday and Tuesday is going to warm up a little bit with the mercury hitting 60 degrees by Wednesday.

Don’t get too excited for warmer temperatures though, as a storm system is expected to arrive by Thursday, bringing with it rain and wind for Carson City, and several feet of snow in the Sierra.

Expect highs temps to reach the low 40’s by Friday with our low temperature around 20 degrees, and with it a good chance at snow showers going into Saturday where we will greet another partly cloudy weather pattern.

Check back for updates as this storm progresses.