Major Daily Temp Variation

Last week we had beautiful sunny days, but some really cold nights. Check out the National Weather Service report. 47 degree difference between day and night. You see this in high deserts. But you won't generally see it in the Midwest or Back East. And you'll never see it in the tropics.

P.S. While Tahoe has some high desert temperature characteristics, we usually get so much snow in the winter that our annual precipitation (water equivalent) is up there with places in the east that regularly get summer rain. Tahoe gets no summer rain outside of the rare thunderstorm.

The Sierra foothills to the west get even more precipitation, however that precip is mostly rain in the winter. It adds up to more precipitation than most places in the US outside of the Pacific Northwest. Parts of the West Slope of the Sierra average over 50 inches of precipitation.

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