In The News – Snowpack near normal levels in Tahoe basin
January 7, 2025 | Member Submitted
Originally Published in the Tahoe Daily Tribune, 1/3/2025, Written by Katelyn Welsh
The Tahoe basin snowpack is near normal levels for this time of year, but a drier forecast looms that may challenge that following Friday’s storm.
The California Department of Water Resources (DWR), which monitors the west side of the Sierra, measured the snowpack at 91% of average for this time of year. The survey conducted on Jan. 2 near Sierra-at-Tahoe recorded 24 inches of snow depth and a snow water equivalent (inches of water contained in the snowpack) at nine inches. The Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), the lead agency for measuring the Sierra’s east-side basins, including the Tahoe basin, found Lake Tahoe’s snowpack as of Jan. 1 at 98% of average and 122% of the median for this time of year.