Northern California Christmas forecast: Foggy start then mild temps Sunday; Next week brings rain, gusty winds - KCRA Sacramento

Christmas Day successful Northern California volition bring pleasant upwind conditions erstwhile the Valley and Delta fog lifts aboriginal successful the morning. Our adjacent tempest strategy volition get precocious Monday nighttime with dense rainfall and wind.Here's what to cognize astir the remainder of the vacation play for the Sacramento country and the Sierra and however to cheque real-time postulation conditions.Dense fog volition linger from the Delta into the Valley and areas of the Motherlode, starring to visibility little than a 4th mile successful a batch of spots. Long stretches of I-5, I-80 and Highway 99 volition beryllium impacted by the fog.The prima volition travel retired precocious Sunday greeting into the aboriginal day and temperatures successful the Valley volition beryllium mild, successful the mid to precocious 50s.Expect Northern California rainfall and snowfall adjacent weekA bedewed and astatine times windy upwind signifier volition prime up successful the coming week. A bid of systems volition interaction Northern California starting precocious Monday night.Each strategy volition beryllium unsocial and bring antithetic impacts crossed the region.Plan for the archetypal circular of rainfall precocious Monday nighttime into Tuesday morning. This rainfall volition interaction anyone traveling overnight and into Tuesday morning. Wind volition besides beryllium beardown and perchance damaging from the Valley into the Sierra. Due to expected question hazards and the imaginable for immoderate watercourse and municipality flooding, the KCRA 3 upwind squad is calling Tuesday an Impact Day.Rainfall totals successful the Valley volition scope from 1 inch to 2 inches betwixt Monday nighttime and Tuesday evening. The heaviest rainfall volition apt travel Tuesday morning. Sustained winds betwixt 25 and 35 mph are expected, on with immoderate higher gusts. Gusts whitethorn scope 60 mph successful the precocious Sierra.This volition beryllium a lukewarm strategy from Tuesday into Wednesday meaning snowfall levels volition beryllium precocious and astir 7,000 feet astatine the start. The snowfall level volition apt driblet beneath the passes aboriginal Tuesday into Wednesday. Travelers should program for imaginable concatenation controls Tuesday nighttime and perchance Wednesday.More waves of rainfall and snowfall are successful the forecast passim the week. Each strategy volition beryllium timed retired arsenic we benignant retired the details for each one.Download our app for the latestHere is wherever you tin download our app for the latest upwind alerts.Follow our KCRA upwind squad connected societal mediaChief Meteorologist Mark Finan connected Facebook and TwitterMeteorologist Tamara Berg connected Facebook and TwitterMeteorologist Eileen Javora connected FacebookMeteorologist Dirk Verdoorn connected FacebookMeteorologist/Climate Reporter Heather Waldman connected Facebook and TwitterWatch our forecasts connected TV oregon onlineHere's wherever to find our latest video forecast. You tin besides ticker a livestream of our latest newscast here. The banner connected our website turns reddish erstwhile we're live.We're besides streaming connected the Very Local app for Roku, Apple TV oregon Amazon Fire TV.Track Northern California Doppler radar here(App users, click present to spot our interactive radar map.)Traveling this weekend? Track real-time postulation updates here(App users, click present to spot our interactive postulation map.)