Lake Tahoe expected to fill up with largest physical rise in recorded history(AGW?)

sfgate.com ^ | 3/17/2017 | Amy Graff

[rktman]

Lake Tahoe's natural rim is at 6,223 feet above sea level. The lake can store an additional 6.1 feet in its reservoir and climbs up to 6,229 feet at full capacity, its legal maximum limit. The only outlet, a dam at Tahoe City, regulates the upper 6.1 feet above the low water mark, and this winter water is being released into the Truckee River as billions of gallons flow into the lake.

Tahoe's water level reached 6,226.84 feet on Wednesday, and the lake needs some 88 billion gallons of water to jump up the 2.26 feet required to be completely full. That's the equivalent of filling more than 133,000 Olympic-size swimming pools.

[ckilmer]

hmm. for all the precip out west they will only raise powell & meade to 50-75% of full.
http://www.cbrfc.noaa.gov/lmap/lmap.php?interface=wsup

[Paladin2]

LA still wants plenty of water from outside its watershed...

[mad_as_he$$]

Meade is on the Colorado River. The Rockies were not hit was as much snow(in relative terms) as the Sierra's. Still running up Meade to 50% is a big improvement. Climate changers proclaimed it would never come back.

[rktman]

Not from up here. The Truckee Meadows gets most of the water from the snow pack(about 185% of “normal” right now)/run off to Lake Tahoe(and aquifers also). The Truckee river only goes from Tahoe to Pyramid lake. Some irrigation canals in areas but nothing for Lake Mead which gets water from the Colorado River.

[ckilmer]

the rockies got 150-200% of normal snowfall. It looks like it would take another 2 years or so of this years precip to get lake powell and lake meade up to full.

[mad_as_he$$]

Meade full is a good thing. I was under the impression that the Rockies got more snow on the Southern part than usual. If they got 150%+ in a wide area that is awesome.

[ckilmer]

the colorado rockies got more than usual but more like 100-130%.

The big snows were in the green river basin. There some locations got as much as 200-300% of normal. You can see the map here. Its color coded.
http://www.cbrfc.noaa.gov/lmap/lmap.php?interface=wsup