It's the middle of the summer, but it felt a bit like winter in the Sierra this week as a storm dumped four inches of hail on Interstate 80 around Donner Summit.
The hail storm was just the latest strange weather to hit the Sierra Nevada, influenced by the weather-changing phenomenon El Niño. For months, climate scientists have said El Niño is likely to bring more rain to Southern California this winter. http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-el-nino-north-20150723-story.html#page=1
Article courtesy of the Los Angeles Times by Hailey Branson-Potts and Rong-Gong Lin II
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