Been smokin windy all day today.  Go to my web cam to see the over-head surf the North Shore of Tahoe can produce.  Pray for the Reno Fire victims,  please.

With the weekend approaching and Thanksgiving around the corner, Tahoe is about to see a significant change in the weather.

This weekend will be only a taste, however. Consider it the appetizer before what could be a nice Thanksgiving feast. Two storms coming toward California this weekend will deliver a few inches of snow, perhaps close to a foot at the Sierra crest. The first one should arrive by midday Friday, peaking Friday night into Saturday. Snow levels will start around 7000 feet and then crash as the cold front moves through and drops temperatures by about 15 degrees. But there is not much moisture with this system. Look for a couple of inches around the Lake and maybe 6 inches around 7000 feet, with a few more inches possible at the highest elevations around the region.

This system should be moving east by Saturday afternoon, with just a few snow showers left behind. A second low pressure system drifting down the coast of California now looks to be tracking too far west to bring us much, if any, precipitation. It's a cut-off low, meaning that it will be unmoored from the main west to east flow over the Sierra for a while. So it could still trick us and move inland sooner. But the best guess at the moment is that this system will keep drifting all the way to Southern California before turning east. So we can't depend on it for snow.

After a break of a couple of days, the seven-day forecast is still showing a very nice storm developing right around Thanksgiving. It could arrive as early as Wednesday, and if it comes together as advertised, it has the potential to drop a couple of feet of snow on Tahoe before it's done.