"The incoming storms are expected to unload 3 to 4 feet of new snow in the Lake Tahoe area and a staggering 5 to 6 feet farther south at Ebbetts Pass and Sonora Pass, the National Weather Service forecasts.
"This is going to be a really big storm — certainly the biggest and most intense storm of the year so far, and we've seen some decent ones," said Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at UCLA. "
