Holiday weekend begins with storm warnings

The long holiday weekend has officially begun, but people planning to head for the mountains might want to wait until morning."There are storm warnings right now. Nobody should be traveling to the mountains tonight," said Johnnie Powell, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Sacramento.As of about 5 p.m. today, the snow level was down to about the 2,000-foot elevation, and a winter storm warning was in effect for foothill communities such as Grass Valley,

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