Prolonged Storm To Deliver Feet Of Snow Christmas Week Across Colorado’s Rocky

Traffic will be stopped from milepost 58 to milepost 64 from 4-6 a.m. and later at 9 a.m.

The Kitsap Sun reports snow began falling in Seabeck Monday morning.

Yet another storm will dig even deeper into the state Christmas Day and the following weekend.

For those traveling south, Mesquite and Las Vegas have a sunny forecast until Thursday night when there is a slight chance of showers. The higher elevations from the Cascades and the Sierra Nevada to Utah’s Wasatch and the northern Rockies will likely measure snow in feet through midweek.

Meteorologists with the National Weather Service in Portland said the approaching storm appears comparable in strength to damaging wind storms in December 2012 and January 1990.

The area is expected have 15-30 inches of total accumulation at the end of the snowfall with an average gust of winds around 25 to 35 miles per hour.

Snow will pile up in the mountains of the West, courtesy of Winter Storm Ferus. The Sacramento Mountains are now in the mix to pick up some much needed snow. Snow tire or chain restrictions may be in effect along most highways and passes, including Interstate 80, U.S. Highway 50, California highways 28, 89 and 267, and Nevada highways 28, 207 and 431.

The winter storm warning in the Shoshone, Richfield and Carey areas is calling for up to eight inches of snow while the storm warning in the Burley, Minidoka, Heyburn and Rupert areas says up to four inches will fall in those communities.