A fast moving winter storm leave a little snow in the valley with a decent dusting up in the mountains. High winds will limit valley snow thanks to the shadow effect, but the mountains will likely get anywhere from an inch or so at the lake itself to as much as 6” along the crests. Travel Over the passes could be difficult through midday Wednesday, with strong winds combining with occasional heavy snow to create whiteout conditions. The front passes through fairly quickly with clearing skies by Wednesday afternoon. It will leave behind a cold airmass, and we can expect Thursday’s high to barely get above the freezing mark. The rest of the week will be cold with highs varying between the mid-30s and low 40s and overnight lows that should drop as low as the single digits in some areas.
Christmas day will start out cold, but an approaching cold front could warm it up back into the 40s, and another storm system coming in Christmas night could bring another chance for some rain to snow by Tuesday.
A Word of Weather 
Mr. Alger,
I have found that I no longer watch your weather forecasts. Not for lack of accuracy or anything measurable like that. Rather, around a month ago, while watching 2News you folks had an exchange on “Leafs in the yard”. You were rather cavalier about not cleaning up your own leafs. Actually didn’t really care if your neighbors were stuck cleaning up your mess. At first I just grumbled and chalked it up to ignorance. But, you see, I had just finished cleaning up 15+ bags from my front yard and I have no trees in my front yard. I had just finished turning in two neighbors to the ordnance department, here in Carson City, and had them told they can’t do this. I believe there will be fines next year if they don’t start doing their part. This was hard on me. Not just the extra work but being forced to turn in neighbors for this. I want peace in my neighborhood and when I got a prominent Weather Caster on TV promoting to screw neighbors over, kind of got under my skin more than I realized.
So, I will be turning the channel when you come on. It’s a shame, for the most part I like the news team on2News. But, you have soured that. I understand you or anyone else on this channel can’t be all things to all people. I will never demand perfection from you. But, Mr. Alger, this is over the line. How dare you to think so little of your neighbors to think it is in anyway okay to put your mess in their yards. Your words are far reaching and can affect people in other neighborhoods and just widens the problems.
Maybe you can get back in good graces here. Start promoting to clean up and not make it others job.
Take Care,
John Ream
Carson City
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Hi John. I think you totally misunderstood what I said. I live in a neighborhood where leaves just flat out don’t collect in our yard. It’s a strange occurrence, but none of us in our neighborhood ever have to remove leaves because upwind of us we don’t have any trees. Therefore there is nothing to remove. In addition to that, I only have fir trees in my yard… So I really can’t add to the leaf problem in my neighborhood.
I certainly never meant to give the impression that I was encouraging people to allow their junk to accumulate in their neighbor’s yards. I apologize if that’s how it came off. The question to me came out of the blue and I was unprepared to give a better answer than I never get any leaves in my yard.
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