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But what solves the puzzle is that the Great Basin is a (temperate) desert because the Sierra Nevadas block Pacific storms, casting a rain shadow on the region.
A series of storms out West already has delivered more than 20 inches of snow to parts of the Sierra Nevadas, as wind gusts along the Oregon coast reached 67 mph.
In parts of the Sierra Nevadas, mountain snow of 1 to 2 feet is possible through Monday.
A wooden flume was also built from the Sierra Nevadas into Carson City.
Chapman, p. 383 Chapman: "Over the hills of the Coast Range, in the valleys of the Sacramento and San Joaquin, north of San Francisco Bay, and in the Sierra Nevadas of the south there were untold thousands whom the mission system never reached.