LAKE TAHOE — One of the United States’ most iconic lakes almost saw record-breaking surface level temperatures as another heat wave hits Northern California.
When is warm too warm for Lake Tahoe?
“Too warm, certainly in the case of Lake Tahoe, is when the temperature starts to accelerate the things we don’t want in the lake,” said Geoff Schladow, UC Davis professor and former director of the Tahoe Environmental Research Center.
Schladow said Lake Tahoe had its second-highest surface temperature recorded from the middle of the lake in the last 25 years on July 22. It was 75.7 degrees.
The highest surface temperature in the last 25 years was on July 24, 2006, at 77.9 degrees.