Issued Zones:  The Kern County Mountains, including all passes … Gorman …

Site:  Southern California Weather Force has issued a Winter Weather Advisory effective Thursday evening through Friday …

Date:  3/6/19 at 11:15 am PT

Forecast:  The back-end of a Pacific Storm will move in and finally drop the snow levels below the 5,000 mark later on Thursday into Thursday night …and into Friday. 

The combined lift from the strong northwest winds in the low-levels will bring the snow level to 4,000 FT and thus affect the I-5 corridor/Tehachapi areas as well as all zones of the Kern County Mountains. 

Given what I see, realistically we will see over 2+” with room to head on up in amounts from there in many areas. 

This winter weather advisory is for heavy snowfall at times, gusty winds, and also closures of the mountain passes, especially the I-5 corridor between Thursday evening and Friday afternoon …

A chance of thunderstorms is also in my forecast, thus thundersnow is possible …

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Forecaster: KM