For more stories like this, check out The Chronicle’s weekly Travel newsletter! Sign up here.A burst of late-season storms rolling across Northern California is filling in the region’s mountains with snow at a time when many people had chalked up this winter as another disappointing drought year. After a three-month dry spell of paltry precipitation, the La NiƱa weather pattern in the Pacific has unleashed a barrage of wet weather this month that could continue, on and off, through early May. It’s been an erratic winter in the mountains.
For more stories like this, check out The Chronicle’s weekly Travel newsletter! Sign up here.A burst of late-season storms rolling across Northern California is filling in the region’s mountains with snow at a time when many people had chalked up this winter as another disappointing drought year. After a three-month dry spell of paltry precipitation, the La NiƱa weather pattern in the Pacific has unleashed a barrage of wet weather this month that could continue, on and off, through early May. It’s been an erratic winter in the mountains.