Wild Lake Tahoe Weather Continues….Epic Winter to Follow?

 

 

The rain just keeps on coming. Lake Tahoe Weather.Now it is the talk of the really local locals who usually poo poo anything weather wise with a comment like….’back in 59 we had etc etc” But now even the old timers are looking up in the sky and wondering what the heck is going on! Since Memorial day weekend there has been rain almost everyday with June precipitation totals nearing all time records in the Reno area. See below

The recent moist and unstable pattern over western Nevada has
produced one of the wettest Junes on record in Reno. Another
series of showers brought rain to the Reno Airport Saturday
pushing the monthly total further up the list of wettest Junes on
record. The next good chance for rainfall in Reno will be Monday
night and Tuesday.

Below is a list of the top ten wettest Junes for Reno.

1920 1.94
1989 1.53
2009 1.45  total as June 14th
1932 1.40
1998 1.39
1938 1.31
1965 1.31
1969 1.29
1995 1.29
1892 1.27

Since May 30th the Reno Airport has received 1.83 inches of rain.

If you look close at those years many of them were huge snow total years especially 1969, 1995, 1998