FEMA Region IV remains in close contact with the state. For The West A closed upper low drifting north off of the northern California coast will spread more moisture inland today. Showers will continue from Bakersfield north with more of a general rain pattern from San Francisco north into southwest Oregon. Showers may spread as far north as Portland later this afternoon. Snow will continue to accumulate in the mountains where snow levels are around 3,500 feet.
Heavy accumulations are possible in the northern Sierras.
The snow will spread east into the Rockies with the help of an arctic cold front creating lift from the north. As much as three to six inches of fresh snow will blanket the mountains of Idaho, Wyoming and Nevada this evening. Meanwhile rain showers, mixed at times with snow, will fall in the valleys. Later tonight as some of the upper level energy spreads east, light snows will develop in Colorado aided by some upslope flow, which could cause freezing drizzle to break out over the high plains of Kansas. On Saturday, an earthquake measuring 5.9 on the Richter scale struck approximately 90 miles south southwest of Craig, Alaska or 300 miles south of Juneau.