A tree below Jacks Valley Road is coated with ice crystals on Sunday.
Photo by Kurt Hildebrand.
The first day of winter will seem more like spring after Carson Valley was socked in by freezing fog over the weekend.
And there’s even warmer weather on tap with the high anticipated to hit 58 degrees on Christmas Day.
The low temperature of 28 degrees on Tuesday morning was warmer than the highs over the weekend as the fog pinned cold temperatures into the valleys.
Minden-Tahoe’s automated weather station reported a high temperature of 25 degrees on Saturday when the worst of the pogonip was kept off the Valley floor by an inversion layer that collapsed Saturday night.
By midnight, visibility at the airport was down to a quarter mile thanks to freezing fog, where it stayed until lunch time before returning Sunday evening.
The fog finally lifted for some parts of Carson Valley on Monday morning, though lower areas along the river reported reduced visibility well into the day.
The pogonip left a flocking of ice crystals on trees and wires, after cold humid conditions released moisture.
The forecast for the rest of this week calls for cloudy skies as the high temperatures climb toward 50 degrees thanks to fronts passing north of the Valley.
