{"id":170693,"date":"2026-02-09T18:36:46","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T18:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/170693\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T18:36:46","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T18:36:46","slug":"rain-coming-to-fresno-snow-to-the-sierra-how-long-will-it-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/170693\/","title":{"rendered":"Rain Coming to Fresno, Snow to the Sierra. How Long Will It Last?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Get ready for the return of rain to Fresno and surrounding communities and snow in the Sierra.<\/p>\n<p>The National Weather Service in Hanford\u2019s forecast calls for the arrival of a storm Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, NWS expects snow in the mountains above 6,000 feet, with total accumulations of 4 to 10 inches above 6,000 feet, and 12 to 18 inches above 7,000 feet.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, a Winter Weather Advisory has been issued for elevations above 6,000 feet beginning 10 p.m. tonight and extending to 4 p.m. Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The forecast calls for most of the precipitation on Tuesday and Wednesday. NWS pegs the probability of receiving a half-inch of rain from the storm at 70-80%.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-231833\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Weather-Rain-Totals-260209-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Image of rainfall in Central California cities for 2025-26 water years\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Is Bigger Storm to Follow?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLooking further into the forecast for next weekend into that following week, there is medium, but growing confidence in a much colder and longer-lasting storm system moving through California by Saturday through at least next Wednesday,\u201d NWS said in its Monday morning forecast discussion.<\/p>\n<p>NWS modeling indicates the second storm could pack a wallop with snow falling as low at the foothills. Elevations between 4,000 and 7,000 feet could receive a foot of snow.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, NOAA\u2019s Climate Prediction Center issued its 6-to-10-day look ahead on Sunday. According to the CPC, all of California will receive above normal precipitation through Feb. 18.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-231834\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/6-10-Day-Precipitation-Outlook-1024x791.jpg\" alt=\"Image of CPC precipitation forecast for Feb. 8, 2026 \" width=\"1024\" height=\"791\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Get ready for the return of rain to Fresno and surrounding communities and snow in the Sierra. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4342,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":{"0":"post-170693","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fresno","8":"tag-fresno","9":"tag-fresno-headlines","10":"tag-fresno-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}