Tahoe Spring Sees Snow
This time of year in Lake Tahoe usually sees the beginning of Spring, with snow gear and skiing a memory of the now-over winter. But not this year. Tahoe has been experiencing some unusually wintery weather this week, with snow storms and temperatures well below average. Chains were required on both Interstate 80 and U.S. 50 in California early Tuesday and chains or snows were the order of the day on most highways from Reno to Elko until temperatures warmed. Serial storms over the last three weeks have kept Reno cloudy and gray, dumping feet of snow at the higher elevations and raising the snowpack. On Monday, the Lake Tahoe basin had 20 percent more snow than normal, and the Walker River Basin 40 percent more than normal.
Monday’s high was 43, 15 degrees below the normal 58
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