A T-6 Texan rolls down the runway at Minden-Tahoe Airport on Saturday morning.
Photo by Kurt Hildebrand.

A cold front could bring early frost to parts of the Carson Valley early Sunday morning.

The National Weather Service predicts that temperatures in Minden will drop to 34 degrees around 6 a.m. on Sunday.

“Some of the colder valleys in western Nevada, including the Carson and Smith valleys, are at an increased risk of frost or freeze,” Amanda Young, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Reno, said Saturday afternoon. “Many Sierra valleys have a 70 to 90 percent chance of pre-dawn lows falling below 0 degrees, which will likely result in severe frost.”

Freezing fog may occur early in the morning in the higher Sierra valleys around Martis and Truckee.

As the high pressure system moves into the western U.S. through Sunday, daytime highs will rise slightly, particularly in the lower valleys of northeastern California and western Nevada, where daytime temperatures will exceed the 70-degree mark and rise to 70-75 degrees,” Young said. “In many places in the Sierra, daytime highs will rise to 60-65 degrees.”

Next week temperatures will warm up again as the high pressure system returns to the west.

“We are now entering a phase
Warmer, drier and sunny summer conditions will return next week. In some valleys in western Nevada, thermometers will reach the high to high 90 degrees on Tuesday and through the end of the work week.”

Young said simulations show there is a small chance that more unsettled weather will return to the Sierra and western Nevada late next week and into the weekend.

“There is still a lot of uncertainty surrounding this forecast,” she said.