Interstate 5 was closed in both directions in far Northern California on Tuesday as a cold front dumped snow, officials said.
just after 7 a.m. that cars were being held"on southbound I-5 at at Edgewood, just north of Weed, due to white out conditions."that northbound lanes were “closed to all traffic at Fawndale, 10 miles north of Redding.”
The closure comes as a storm system is hitting Northern California, dumping widespread precipitation and kicking up winds. Snow was falling at elevations as low as 1,000 feet north of Redding near Shasta Lake at 10:30 a.m., Chelsea Peters, a forecaster with the National Weather Service, said. “It has been causing some impacts along I-5,” Peters told SFGATE."Snow levels are expected to start rising to 2,500 feet at 2 p.m. and will get higher through the evening."
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