Lake Tahoe’s water level rose by over a quarter of a foot after atmospheric rivers swept across parts of California and Nevada in late January and early February, as the website SnowBrains detailed — and it has continued to rise. An atmospheric river is essentially a river in the sky carrying massive amounts of moisture from the tropics to the poles that unleash massive amounts of rain and snow when they reach land, according to the Department of Energy .
According to an Instagram post by the Tahoe Fund on Feb. 6, 12 billion gallons of water were added to the lake since the previous week. To raise such a large lake’s water level by any amount takes a ” staggering ” amount, according to SnowBrains.
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