According to the special statement issued not an hour ago by the National Weather Service there is a 100 percent chance of snow. Not 90, not 60, but 100 percent. The radar is showing a big blob of something over the Sierra which is feeding a bigger blob out over the Pine Nuts. That means we're getting shadowed out of the good stuff and its regrouping to the east. Heavenly is showing a trace of new snow and I can't tell anything's fallen in the Valley from either of the first two storms.
So here's the forecast. There's a 100 percent chance of precipitation today through 5 p.m. and then it drops to 70 percent through 3 a.m. It drops off for a while and climbs back up again in time for Wednesday's evening commute. The high temperature today is expected to hit 44 degrees.
Minden bank robber Steve Simmons will be back in court for resentencing today after the Supreme Court decided District Judge Michael Gibbons was too harsh on a guy who was convicted by a jury of his peers. Simmons robbed the Minden Bank of America during the Sheriff's Office shift change just before Thanksgiving 2005. The deputies found him hiding in a dog crate and his DNA was discovered on a bag containing the money and a gun he shoved in the face of a teller. At sentencing, Gibbons, who could have given Simmons a harsher sentence, pointed out that Simmons wasn't very contrite. So he appealed his sentence, because even though a jury decided he was a bank robber, he never admitted it and Gibbons shouldn't have pointed out his lack of contrition. Judge Dave Gamble gets the case this morning.
