Yes it’s snowing in the greater Sacramento area. Send you photos to sacramento@fromthecapitol.com and we will publish them online.

The foothills actually have enough to sled on. Schools in some foothill school districts are closed.

Yesterday’s storm in the Sacramento area is gone, but the region is a mess.

SMUD and PG&E are still woring hard in the area. Over 12K SMUD customers are still without power. The storm knocked out power to over 90,000 people in the Sacramento region. Cities and communities where customers are without power included Sacramento, 2100 customers; Carmichael, 2,119 customers; North Highlands, 1,449; Arden Arcade, 1,385; Citrus Heights, 1,315; and Fair Oaks, 1,078. No ETA has been given by SMUD or PG&E.

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The greater Sacramento area is scheduled for a big storm this week. Some are even touting this as the biggest October storm in decades.  We could see winds between 40 and 45 MPH along with about 2 inches of rain.

Snow will fall in the Sierra starting at about 7,500 feet elevation.  When you get up to 8,000 to 9,000 feet we may see winds as high as 100 MPH.  Most of the wind will be concentrated to Tuesday afternoon and continue throughout the day.

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