Winds biggest deal from storm

A windstorm with gusts up to 50 or 60 mph damaged some roofs in Carson City on Thursday.

Scott McGuire, meteorologist for the National Weather Service, said localized wind gusts often occur in canyon areas like Carson City.

Gusts through Washoe Valley reached about 56 mph.

The wind ripped holes in the roofs of two commercial buildings on Mallory Way.

Along with the wind, temperatures are expected to drop some 20 degrees today with a high around 40.

The National Weather Service also issued a winter storm advisory for late Thursday night into early this morning.

"It's difficult this time of year to predict accumulation," McGuire said. "It will be nothing too significant. It will go through pretty quickly. There's not a lot of available moisture with the front coming through."

The front is moving over Oregon, California and Nevada from the Pacific Ocean.

"The storm will move right over the central Sierra through the early morning," McGuire said. "And with it the winds pick up ahead of it. Wind prone areas will see locally higher gusts."

Winds in Carson City are expected to be 15 mph to 20 mph today.

McGuire said the weather front will move out by Saturday with the area back to partly cloudy skies and temperatures back into the 50s.

"With the sun at such a high angle, that causes the system to move through quickly," he said. "There will be another system to affect the area come in on Tuesday. It will have some sort of impact, bringing clouds and lower temperatures and a chance of precipitation. This system will be from the eastern Pacific Ocean again."