{"id":184255,"date":"2026-02-19T07:30:43","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T07:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/184255\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T07:30:43","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T07:30:43","slug":"on-and-off-winter-storms-in-fresno-help-restore-snowpack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/184255\/","title":{"rendered":"On-and-off winter storms in Fresno help restore snowpack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fresnobee.com\/news\/weather-news\/article314722310.html\">rainy weather<\/a> in the Fresno area  will be followed by more on-and-off storms, bringing plenty of snow that will help replenish the snowpack.<\/p>\n<p>Carlos Molina, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service office in Hanford, said the rainfall from earlier this week is expected to be followed by a quiet period of scattered showers Wednesday. Another storm will hit the area Thursday, which may yield between a quarter-inch to a half-inch of rain, Molina said.<\/p>\n<p>The mountains can get up to another foot of snow from Thursday\u2019s storm, Molina said.<\/p>\n<p>While the storms will clear out by Friday or Saturday, Molina said another system is expected to hit Fresno by Sunday night or Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Rain in Fresno began late Sunday and yielded about 0.9 inches of rainfall, Molina said. He said snow levels dropped to below 4,000 feet of elevation, just under Shaver Lake.<\/p>\n<p>Areas in elevations of 6,000 feet or higher saw two-to-three feet of snow in the last 24 hours, while some areas near Yosemite National Park got nearly four feet of snow, Molina said.<\/p>\n<p>Molina said this is helping to replenish the snowpack. While water runoff may raise rivers a bit, Molina said these storms are coming after a dry period and aren\u2019t presenting much of a flood risk. Additionally, Molina said Fresno is experiencing a winter storm from the Gulf of Alaska, bringing colder air that doesn\u2019t hold much moisture.<\/p>\n<p>                                                                                                                                                                                                              <img class=\"responsive-image\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\"  alt=\"Traffic travels south on Freeway 41 south of Avenue 15 in Madera County as a heavy downpour hits the area on Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2026.\" title=\"FRS_weather_01.JPG\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>                                                                                                                Traffic travels south on Freeway 41 south of Avenue 15 in Madera County as a heavy downpour hits the area on Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2026.                                                                                            CRAIG KOHLRUSS                                                                            ckohlruss@fresnobee.com                                                                                        <\/p>\n<p class=\"summary gray\">This story was originally published February 17, 2026 at 3:46 PM.<\/p>\n<p>        Related Stories from  Fresno Bee<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The rainy weather in the Fresno area will be followed by more on-and-off storms, bringing plenty of snow&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":184256,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113,2757,62,36221,1068],"class_list":{"0":"post-184255","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","11":"tag-fresno-weather","12":"tag-rain","13":"tag-snowpack","14":"tag-winter-storm"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184255","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=184255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}