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Forecast data from the National Digital Forecast Database.

5 Day Forecast

• Monday
• 
• High: 38 °
• Low: 25 °
• Snow Showers

• Tuesday
• 
• High: 36 °
• Low: 25 °
• Chance of Snow

• Wednesday
• 
• High: 38 °
• Low: 25 °
• Partly Cloudy

• Thursday
• 
• High: 41 °
• Low: 27 °
• Partly Cloudy

• Friday
• 
• High: 45 °
• Low: 27 °
• Partly Cloudy

Area forecast discussion 
National Weather Service Elko Nevada 
336 PM PST sun Feb 12 2012 


Synopsis...a strong winter storm will bring accumulating snow to 
central Nevada Monday and Tuesday. The heaviest snow is expected 
across southern Lander and Eureka counties...as well as northern 
Nye and White Pine counties from Monday morning through Tuesday 
morning. A much weaker system will drop through northern and 
central Nevada Wednesday. 


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Short term...tonight through Tuesday. Light mainly mountain snow 
showers this afternoon across central and eastern portions of the 
County Warning Area will diminish through this evening. 


A strong storm system will begin to affect western Humboldt 
County early Monday morning...and spread southeast into mainly 
central Nevada later Monday morning. 


Snow amounts across southeastern most Humboldt County...as well 
as the western portions of northern Lander County are expected to 
be in the 1 to 2 inch range with some locally higher amounts 
Monday morning. At this time decided not to issue an impact based 
advisory as the expected area of impact is such a small percent of 
any zone. May need to cover any moderate to heavy snow 
showers...which are currently prognosticated for the Winnemucca to Battle 
Mountain area...with a now cast Monday morning if in fact they do 
develop. 


Have upgraded the winter storm watches for southern Lander and 
Eureka counties as well and northern Nye and White Pine counties 
for the Monday morning through Tuesday morning time-frame...as the 
bulk of the dynamics is focused in this area. Heaviest snow 
accumulations are expected across the southern half of southern 
Lander and Eureka counties...as well as the northern portion of 
northern Nye County and the western portion of White Pine County. 
Locations along the Highway 50 corridor including the cities of 
Austin and Eureka could see very heavy snow showers...with the 
potential for over a foot of snow by Tuesday morning. 


Dropped the watch for the Ruby Mountains for tomorrow...instead 
opting for a Winter Weather Advisory. The northern half of the 
Ruby Range may not even meet advisory criteria...however dynamics 
along with some upslope shower activity across southern portions 
should be enough for 3 to 9 inches over the lower and middle-slope 
regions...with higher amounts possible over southern Ruby Montana range 
ridge lines. 


Showers diminish west to east Tuesday morning lingering over 
White Pine County into Tuesday afternoon. 




Long term...Tuesday night through next Sunday. The models are in 
fairly good agreement with ridging over the County Warning Area Tuesday evening 
followed by a upper low digging south into extreme western Nevada after 
midnight. Upper low digs into central California on Wednesday with wrap 
around moisture mainly over southern Nevada Wednesday afternoon. 
Have lowered probability of precipitation to slight chance as main dynamics from this 
system remain west and south of the County Warning Area. High pressure builds into 
the County Warning Area Wednesday night through Saturday morning. A stronger upper 
low pressure system is forecasted by models to push into western 
Nevada Saturday afternoon digging into Southern California by Sunday morning. 
GFS has best chance of precipitation at this time in the 
deformation zone along a line from Austin to Elko at this time...while ec 
broad brushes the entire area. With uncertainty in models have low 
probability of precipitation days 6 and 7. 


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Aviation...as high pressure builds into the Great Basin this 
evening expect VFR conditions. However...may have MVFR conditions 
briefly early this evening at kely from lingering snow showers. 
As an upper low moves into the area Monday...expect MVFR with IFR 
conditions at times Monday afternoon mainly at ktph...kely and 
kwmc. 


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Lkn watches/warnings/advisories... 
Winter Storm Warning from 10 am Monday to 10 am PST Tuesday for 
White Pine County. 


Winter Weather Advisory from 10 am Monday to 10 am PST Tuesday 
for Ruby Mountains/East Humboldt Range. 


Winter Storm Warning from 7 am Monday to 7 am PST Tuesday for 
northern Nye County...southern Lander County and southern Eureka 
County. 


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