"Sierra Nevada Braces for 10 Feet of Snow and Urges Yosemite Visitors to Leave"

A powerful Pacific storm is expected to bring up to 10 feet of snow to the Sierra Nevada by the weekend, prompting blizzard warnings and forcing a Lake Tahoe ski resort to close. The storm is forecast to cause major highway closures, power outages, and backcountry avalanche warnings, with winds gusting over 115 mph. While the storm is expected to provide much-needed snowpack for California's water supplies, some residents remain skeptical due to previous unfulfilled storm forecasts.