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Powerful Pacific System Impacting the West; First Significant Snow for Portions of the East

Power Pacific system will continue to bring significant impacts for Pacific Northwest into northern California the remainder of the week. Dangerous coastal affects, heavy rain, flooding, strong winds, and higher elevation mountain snow continues. Meanwhile, a storm across the east is set to bring the first accumulating snow to many higher elevations of the Catskills into the central Appalachians. Read More >

NOAA Weather Radio

NOAA Weather Radio All Hazards (NWR) is a nationwide network of radio stations broadcasting continuous weather information from the nearest National Weather Service Forecast office. All forecast information as well as watches, warnings, and advisories, in addition to much more, is broadcast on the NOAA All-Hazards Weather Radio. For more information about the program, please use the following link:

For local broadcasts from your Reno National Weather Service Office:

 
Frequency
Station Identifier
Locations Covered
Slide Mountain
162.550 MHz
WXK58
Reno and Tahoe
Virginia Peak
162.450 MHz
WWG20
Reno, Pyramid Lake, Lassen County
Corey Peak
162.475 MHz
WWF59
Hawthorne and Mineral County
Conway Summit
162.525 MHz
WNG595
Mammoth-Bishop and Mono County


Amateur Radio Information:

There are a network of amateur radio operators who help the National Weather Service in Reno during times of severe weather. If you'd like to make a report via amateur radio, the office call sign is: WX7RNO.

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