{"id":246781,"date":"2026-04-01T14:50:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T14:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/246781\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T14:50:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T14:50:11","slug":"april-kicks-off-in-the-sierra-with-chain-controls-on-i-80","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/246781\/","title":{"rendered":"April kicks off in the Sierra with chain controls on I-80"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just days after Northern California saw a stretch of record high temperatures, the high Sierra Nevada is once again getting snow.<\/p>\n<p>Chain controls went up on Interstate 80 in the Sierra early Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>As of 7 a.m., controls are in effect westbound from the Donner Lake Interchange to Rainbow. On the eastbound side, chain controls are in effect from Kingvale to Truckee.<\/p>\n<p>Highway 50 is not seeing any restrictions at this time.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/gds-wed-clean-feed-04012026.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"gds-wed-clean-feed-04012026.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Other major Sierra roads seeing chain controls Wednesday include Highways 4, 49 and 88.<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday also marks the day California&#8217;s Department of Water Resources will conduct its fourth snow survey of the season. As of Monday, the statewide snowpack is at about 18% of average.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Just days after Northern California saw a stretch of record high temperatures, the high Sierra Nevada is once&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246782,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[10794,121,123,122,124],"class_list":{"0":"post-246781","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sacramento","8":"tag-interstate-80","9":"tag-sacramento","10":"tag-sacramento-headlines","11":"tag-sacramento-news","12":"tag-sierra-nevada"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246781","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=246781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}