Mammoth Mountain

In this photograph provided by Mammoth Mountain Ski Area, MMSA, a snowfall plower removes snowfall successful Mammoth Mountain successful Mammoth Lakes, Calif., aboriginal Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2021. Another tempest is pushing into California arsenic the authorities cleans up from a almighty upwind strategy that coated mountains with much-needed snowfall and acceptable rainfall records successful the drought-stricken state. Wednesday's tempest is expected to mostly interaction Northern California. (Peter Morning/MMSA via AP)

REDDING, Calif. – A conception of a large road successful Northern California reopened Thursday day aft a astir 24-hour closure caused by blizzard conditions arsenic the latest of back-to-back storms pushed through, authorities said.

Traffic resumed moving connected a agelong of Interstate 5 northbound of the metropolis of Redding astir 1 p.m., said Haleigh Pike, a spokesperson for the California Department of Transportation. Redding is astir 200 miles (320 kilometers) northbound of San Francisco.

Northbound lanes were unopen down astir 1:20 p.m. Wednesday arsenic vehicles began getting stuck. The southbound broadside was closed astir an hr later.

Winter upwind warnings and advisories expired by precocious Thursday greeting but the reopening took immoderate clip due to the fact that road and inferior crews had to measure the roadway, region hazardous trees and reconstruct powerfulness lines.

South of San Francisco, a 40-mile (64-kilometer) agelong of the scenic Highway 1 successful the Big Sur country reopened Wednesday evening aft tempest harm was cleaned up.

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Storms this week person dumped ample amounts snowfall successful the mountains of drought-stricken California's mountains and drenched little elevations with dense rain.

California road authorities announced Thursday the seasonal closure of respective large passes done the Sierra Nevada and sections of different authorities routes successful the mountains owed to accumulation of snow. The routes volition stay closed until snowfall and debris are cleared and repairs are made successful the spring.

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