The Jan. 9, 2023, R-C Morning Report

Genoa, Nev. — A winter storm watch for Western Nevada for this morning was replaced with a winter weather advisory at 5 a.m. today and delayed until 2 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday. We could see heavy rainfall today with snow falling above 6,500 feet. Most of the atmospheric river is expected to arrive on Tuesday.

A new river forecast is expected at 9 a.m., but the East Fork at Horseshoe Bend shows cresting 7 p.m. today at 11.3 feet, well short of the 13-foot action stage. Depending on what happens with the temperatures that could change.

Road controls are pretty similar to Sunday morning, including Kingsbury and Highway 50 in the mountains. Nothing on Highway 395 through the Pine Nuts as of 6 a.m. but it is snowing a bit up there.

Douglas school buses are expected to be on their regular schedule and stops today. All schools are open, and I don’t expect quite the challenges we’ve seen last week, hopefully.

The last of the big outages in Gardnerville was 5:03 p.m. Friday affecting around 42 customers while they pulled some tree branches that posed an imminent threat to power lines. This morning there isn’t a single Douglas customer listed at the nvenergy.com outage site.

I very much doubt it will take 14 votes for the Douglas County commissioners to select a chairman at their 10 a.m. meeting today. Most of today’s business will be devoted to self organizing and seminars on the ethics, open meeting laws and land use. They’re meeting at the Douglas County Courthouse, 1616 Eighth St., Minden.

I’m reading a quarter inch of rain so far in Genoa this morning. It’s up about a tenth over two hours so not falling very fast. It’s 38 degrees outside and the snow level is around 7,300 feet. It’s forecast to drop to 6,200 feet this afternoon. The Valley is expected to receive between a half and three-quarters of an inch of rain today. The high is forecast to climb to 43 degrees with the wind 10-15 mph gusting to 25 mph.

Kurt Hildebrand is editor of The Record-Courier. Reach him at khildebrand@recordcourier.com or 775-782-5122.