California is currently experiencing a rare winter storm event, with the National Weather Service reporting up to 8 feet of snow in higher elevations and 80-mph wind gusts.
On Friday, the weather agency issued a blizzard warning for Los Angeles and Ventura counties' mountain regions for the first time since 1989. The alert will remain in effect until Saturday late afternoon.
Up north near the San Francisco Bay Area, residents in lower elevated areas reported seeing up to a foot of snow.
"We've never had this much snow before," John Conover, a Napa Valley resident and managing partner of CADE Estate Winery, told Insider.
CADE Estate Winery is located at about 1,70o feet above sea level, Conover said. The area typically receives a little bit of snow each year but it usually melts away by the afternoon.
This time, the snow was here to stay.
"It's gonna be there tomorrow, which is unusual," Conover said. "We get a little snow every year. Nothing like this. I think it's gonna be up there for two or three days."
The weather has created some hazardous conditions, causing highway closures and power outages for about 80,000 customers by Friday night, mostly in northern California, according to PowerOutage.us.
Here are some California regions that experienced an unusual amount of snow.