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Big Bear Lake CA; A winter advisory remains in effect until 10:00 AM this morning. Winds may gust to 35 mph. Our overnight snowfall was eight inches and another foot of accumulation is possible. Road conditions are R2, if you’re vehicle is not 4 wheel drive, you’ll need to chain up.
Snow conditions are the best [...]

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Remember 9-1-1 May Save Someone’s Life
Food Supplies: Is your home well stocked with supplies for seven days? If not, you are not prepared to be a mountain resident. Always keep extra food items stored for emergencies. Canned goods, powdered milk, dry staple goods are all a necessity.
Medical Supplies: Check your medicine cabinets. Do you have [...]

Both Bear Mountain and Snow Summit are experiencing epic conditions. The last storm increase the snow base to 48-84 inches of machine groomed packed powder. Tonights storm is expected to deliver six inches of fresh powder. Locals are saying that this is the best snow base they’ve seen since the late 60’s.

Looking towards Big Bear Lake -Gold Mountain, Butler Peak and Snow Summit

 Snow Summit open, Bear Mountain closed!
Road restrictions were approved by Governor Schwarzenegger last night. All roads leading into Big Bear Lake and Big Bear City, in the San Bernardino Mountains, are restricted to emergency personnel and residents with ID’s.
State, County and CalTrans officials will [...]

The San Bernardino Mountains, including Big Bear Lake, received an amazing amount of snow this week. We used a Nikon Coolpix to make this homemade video of the storms. It looks like we’ve received at least five feet of fresh snow! Roads coming into Big Bear City and Big Bear LAke are closed. Local road [...]

Snow Accumulation Baldwin Lake -Big Bear CA

There is sunshine in the east Big Bear Valley. The sun is poking through the clouds and we can finally see some of the snow accumulation. It wouldn’t surprise us to see five foot totals.
Bear Mountain is closed but Snow Summit is open and will honor any Bear Mountain [...]

View of Big Bear Valley

…WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY
TO MIDNIGHT PST THURSDAY NIGHT
ABOVE 6500 FEET…
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN DIEGO HAS ISSUED A WINTER STORM WARNING ABOVE 6500 FEET FOR HEAVY SNOW AND BLOWING SNOW …WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO MIDNIGHT PST THURSDAY NIGHT.
* TIMING: THIS AFTERNOON AND [...]

The Govenor’s Office issued an alert for the San Bernardino Mountains. A Pacific storm could bring several feet of snow to these southern California mountains.

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN DIEGO CA
JAN 14 2010
…BIG CHANGES IN THE WEATHER NEXT WEEK…
MAJOR CHANGES ARE EXPECTED IN THE SOUTHWESTERN CALIFORNIA WEATHER AFTER THIS WEEKEND. A SERIES OF STORMS WILL BRING CLOUDS… COOLING…WIND…AND PERIODS OF LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN NEXT WEEK WITH SNOW AT THE HIGHER ELEVATIONS.
THERE IS STILL A LOT OF UNCERTAINTY ABOUT [...]

HWY 330 -CHAINS ARE REQUIRED ON ALL VEHICLES EXCEPT 4-WHEEL-DRIVE VEHICLES WITH SNOW TIRES ON ALL 4 WHEELS FROM 2.5 MI EAST OF SAN BERNARDINO TO THE JCT OF SR 18 IN RUNNING SPRINGS.
Hwy 18 -1-WAY CONTROLLED TRAFFIC AT VARIOUS LOCATIONS FROM THE JCT OF SR 138 TO 0.6 MI SOUTH OF SANTA’S VILLAGE FROM [...]