(AP) - Snow is falling in the Sierra Nevada and the far north is seeing a few inches of rain as a storm sweeps through California. But the fire-ravaged wine country is mostly dry.
Even so, fire crews have been setting up berms and removing debris to prevent mudslides in areas where fires last month killed at least 43 people and reduced entire neighborhoods to ash.
Santa Rosa received about a fifth of an inch of rain Friday night through Saturday morning. Not much more was forecast through the weekend.
In mountain towns in the far north, towns received 11/2 to nearly 4 inches of rain.
The Sierra Nevada, which stretches 400 miles up and down California, received 2 to 6 inches of snow - a welcome gift for ski resorts preparing to open for the season in the next week or two.
Winter storm warnings remain in effect into Saturday night for the Lake Tahoe area and through Sunday afternoon elsewhere in the Sierras.
Two major roads through Yosemite National Park are closed.
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