MOUNTAIN COMMUNITIES—The National Weather Service Hanford Office is predicting multiple rain and snow producing winter storms will impact our communities this week. They ae warning residents to expect strong wind gusts and winter weather, including up to 3 feet of snow accumulations at the lower elevations. As always, Sierra News Online will be here monitoring and reporting on these storms’ ...

MOUNTAIN COMMUNITIES — The High Sierra Ranger District announces the arrival of continued prescribed burning conditions. The prescribed fire work is a proactive approach to fire and vegetation (fuels) management in the SNF and Sierra Nevada. SNF Fire managers expect to begin Prescribed Fire ignitions in the week of February 14th-18th. Active ignitions may continue through the weekend and into ...

MOUNTAIN COMMUNITIES—The National Weather Service Hanford office is predicting more winter weather will return to our area this weekend. The next storm system will impact Central California Saturday night through Sunday, resulting in the snow in the Sierra Nevada and rain in the San Joaquin Valley. Snow levels will start at around 6,000 feet Saturday night before dropping to about ...

MOUNTAIN COMMUNITIES–Check below for weather alerts, road conditions including traffic collisions, closures and hazards, school closures, power outages and other emergencies as they happen. Related article: Wind, Rain and Snow Returning Today We will continue to update this article throughout the storm – stay safe!   Monday, January 16th, 2023 School Closures/Delays for 1.17.2023 Madera County Update for YUSD Update ...

MOUNTAIN COMMUNITIES–The National Weather Service Hanford Office reports that another round of winter storms will return to our area this weekend. A flood watch, winter storm warning, and a risk of excessive rainfall are all in place now. Rockslides, mudslides, and debris flow flooding are possible. Another atmospheric river will move into central California today, beginning with light rains. Saturday ...

MOUNTAIN COMMUNITIES–This past weekend’s storm wreaked havoc on our mountain communities in more ways than one. Although we definitely needed the rain and snow, what we didn’t need was the flooding and damage that came with it. Flooding, landslides, trees down, power outages, and more occurred mostly on Saturday, News Year’s Eve when an atmospheric river storm moved through our ...

MOUNTAIN COMMUNITIES–Check below for road conditions including traffic collisions, closures and hazards, school closures, power outages and other emergencies as they happen. We will continue to update this article throughout the storm – stay safe!   There is a power outage affecting approximately 2200 people in Mariposa County from Ponderosa Basin to Bootjack to the Lushmeadows area. Estimated time of ...

HANFORD–The National Weather Service Hanford Office is predicting that after a brief break from precipitation today, periods of rain and mountain snow will return to central California into early next week. The heaviest rain and snow will occur over the weekend. Here is a map showing yesterday’s storm precipitation totals. Most areas of the San Joaquin Valley saw three-quarters of ...

HANFORD–The National Weather Service Hanford Office has issued a Flood  Watch for the Mariposa Madera Foothills, Mariposa, Madera, and the Lower Sierra Yosemite Valley. This includes the cities of Coarsegold, Mariposa, Yosemite Valley, Oakhurst, Fish Camp, Bass Lake, North Fork, and El Portal. The Flood Watch is in effect from 4:00AM PST, Tuesday, December 27, 2022 through Tuesday evening. WHAT: ...

MOUNTAIN COMMUNITIES—The National Weather Service Hanford Office predicts a series of storm systems will impact Central California from the middle of the week into the upcoming holiday weekend, producing periodic precipitation. The strongest in this series of storm systems is expected to occur Friday night and Saturday as another atmospheric river could move over Central California. Starting Monday A trough ...