Summary

Clouds increasing today with winds starting to gust in the afternoon to around 35 mph up high. The highs will be in the 40's on the mountains to low 50's at lake level. Thursday a fast moving storm moves through with precip falling from around 4 a.m. to 4 p.m. Snow levels start around 8000 feet and fall below lake level by midday. Winds will gust to 80 mph on the mountain tops. We could see 1-3 inches at lake level by evening, and 2-7 inches on the mountains. Friday the next storm moves in but is moving in to our South. That should bring down wind gusts to about half of Thursdays speeds. The snow should return in the afternoon and last into Friday night. By Saturday morning we could see 2-6 inches at lake level, and 2-10 inches on the mountains. We may have a break between storms for most of the weekend. There may be some scattered showers around, especially along the crest Highs will be in the 30's. Sunday night the next series of storms begin to move in. We could see several waves of precip Monday through Wednesday, with almost continuous snowfall. Snow levels may creep up to 7000 feet Monday before falling again. Winds will be strong with these storms with ridge gusts in excess of 100 mph. We could see 2-5 feet of additional snowfall across the Tahoe region. The storms should end by Thursday but then a cold front moving down from the North could bring light snow next Friday. Then we may have a break again for the weekend of the 25th.

Short Term Forecast