Road controls limited to Mount Rose in first hours of storm

Chain controls were limited to the top of the Mount Rose Highway on the front end of a storm that arrived in Western Nevada on Monday morning.

Otherwise, roads around Lake Tahoe and across the rest of Douglas County were wet but navigable.

Unless a blast of cold air converts the rain to snow this afternoon, it’s likely commuters will deal with mostly wet roads for the evening commute.

In the first five hours of the rain that started falling around 6:30 a.m., spots in Fredericksburg and upper Johnson Lane reported a fifth of an inch.

The storm arrived in the southern portions of the Valley which tended to accumulate between above a tenth of an inch.

A lake wind advisory was issued for Lake Tahoe south to Markleeville through 7 a.m. Tuesday.

A winter weather advisory was in place for locations north of Truckee in the Sierra, while a winter storm watch is in effect for the southern Sierra near Yosemite with 1-2 feet of snow above 9,000 feet. Further down there was 6-12 inches, 8,000 feet.

“A pair of warm and wet systems will impact the region over the next 48-60 hours,” said National Weather Service Reno Meteorologist Wendell Hohmann early Monday morning.