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The Associated Press RENO,NEV. The drought- busting snow and rain in the mountains around Lake Tahoe have pushed the lake to its highest level in more than a decade. After suffering through five consecutive years of drought, hydrologists say the alpine lake atop the Sierra Nevada now has enough water to fill down- stream reservoirs and meet the Reno-area's needs for at least two years. "We are basically going from one extreme to the other in two years," said Bill Hauck, senior hydrolo- gist for the Truckee Mead- ows Water Authority. Scientists are scheduled to release the results of the latest Sierra snowpack surveys on Wednesday. As of Feb. 1, the Tahoe Basin snowpack already was 233 percent of normal. Hauck told the Reno Ga- zette-Journal it's a "fore- gone conclusion" the lake will reach its storage limit level in the weeks ahead for the first time since 2006. "We have significantly more water forecast to come in than we have room for," said Chad Blanchard, the federal water master in Reno who started releas- ing water last week at the dam in Tahoe City, Califor- nia into the Truckee River toward downstream res- ervoirs southwest of Reno, Pyramid Lake and rural ir- rigation canals to the east. "After Tahoe fills it is good for three years," he said. "We could have un- precedented dry (weather) and it still ends up being two years." The dam built between 1909 and 1913 allows for the storage of approximately 6 feet of water above the lake's natural rim. That may not sound like much but Tahoe's surface covers 191 square miles — three times larger than the District of Columbia. Most ski resorts around Lake Tahoe have received record snow since Jan. 1. Mount Rose ski resort southwest of Reno received another 6 feet of snow a week ago to bring to its sea- son-record total to 54 feet. Snowpack totals and wa- ter years run on a seasonal, fiscal-like calendar from Oct. 1 to Sept. 30. Reno al- ready has surpassed its wet- test water season on record with half the calendar in the balance. ALPINE LAKE Drought-busting snowfall pushes Tahoe to highest mark since 2006 Washington 76/46 New York 70/48 Miami 84/72 Atlanta 76/44 Detroit 64/27 Houston 81/47 Chicago 45/26 Minneapolis 36/21 Kansas City 53/26 El Paso 64/36 Denver 44/22 Billings 40/25 Los Angeles 74/50 San Francisco 60/43 Seattle 49/43 AIRQUALITYFORECAST Whatitmeans:0-50:Good; 51-100:Moderate; 101-150:Unhealthyforsensitivepeople; 151+:Unhealthyforall. Source: Airnow.gov City Today'sairquality City Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W CALIFORNIA CITIES National and world forecast s-sunny,pc-partly cloudy,c-cloudy,sh-showers,t-thunderstorms,r-rain,sf-snow flurries,sn-snow,i-ice City Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W Summary National Extremes World Extremes North and South America Asia, Australia Africa CarsonCity Hawthorne Reno Herlong Lovelock Sacramento Yuba City Napa Ukiah Chico Corning Lakeview Alturas Susanville Redding Red Bluff Laytonville Fort Bragg Point Arena Eureka Redway Mount Shasta Yreka Crescent City Ashland Shown is today's weather. Temperatures are today's highs and tonight's lows. Shown are today's noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day. ALMANAC Precipitation Temperatures ALLERGY REPORT Pollenlevels Source: National Allergy Bureau TODAY'S UV INDEX (The higher the number, the faster skin damage will occur.) Extreme Very high High Moderate Low SUN SETTINGS, MOON PHASES Sunrise Sunset Moonrise Moonset Hoursofsunlight River Levels SacramentoRiver Flood 7a.m. 24-hr Stage yest. chg. Lake Levels Elevation Yesterday Storage (acre-feet) Percent Capacity Q: A: THURSDAY 67° 38° FRIDAY 64° 44° Pa rtial sunshine Pa rtly sunn y SATURDAY 60° 41° Spo tt y aft ernoon showers SUNDAY 57° 40° Cool with periods of ra in TODAY 66° 35° Plenty of sunshine. Clear and cold tonight. High ....................................................................... 58° Low ........................................................................ 32° Normal high ......................................................... 63° Normal low ........................................................... 42° Record high ............................................. 81° in 1968 Record low .............................................. 25° in 1955 Humidity noon today ........................................ 40% 24 hours through 2 p.m. yesterday ................. 0.00" Month to date ................................................... 5.51" Normal month to date ..................................... 4.06" Season to date ................................................ 22.27" Normal season to date .................................. 17.30" Red Bluff through 2 p.m. yesterday Chico .................................................................. Good Napa ................................................................... Good Red Bluff .............................................. Not available Redding ............................................... Not available Yuba City ........................................................... Good Allergy, dust and dander today: Neutral Grass .................. Absent Mold .........................Low Trees ............. Moderate Weeds ................ Absent 4 Highest at 11 a.m. Today 6:42 a.m. 6:01 p.m. 8:40 a.m. 9:46 p.m. Thursday 6:41 a.m. 6:02 p.m. 9:17 a.m. 10:54 p.m. 11 hr., 19 min. Mar5 First Mar12 Full Last Mar20 New Mar27 aboveBendBridge......................27 .........23.70 ....... -0.30 atHamiltonCity.........................148 ......144.63 ....... -0.18 atOrdFerry................................114 ......113.95 ....... -0.27 atRedBluffDiversionDam.......253 ......251.70 ....... -0.40 atTehamaBridge ......................213 ......215.10 ....... -0.30 atVinaWoodsonBridge............183 ......182.03 ....... -0.28 BlackButte ....................445.85..............43,643 .....30.4% LakeOroville..................839.27.........2,666,976 .....71.4% LakeShasta .................1042.90.........3,869,717 .....85.0% LakeTrinity..................2335.11.........1,916,611 .....72.4% Whiskeytown...............1206.09............228,713 .....94.9% Weather Trivia ™ March will end sheepish if it comes in like what? A lion. Today Thursday Anaheim 75/47/s 84/47/s Bakersfield 64/39/s 67/42/s Chula Vista 72/48/s 74/49/s Crescent City 52/38/pc 50/41/pc Death Valley 73/50/s 77/47/s Eureka 52/36/s 50/39/pc Fremont 62/41/s 63/42/s Fresno 62/39/s 67/41/s Glendale 70/49/s 81/49/s Huntington Beach 70/52/s 77/52/s Irvine 72/50/s 76/48/s Lake Tahoe 43/13/s 49/19/s Long Beach 74/47/s 78/48/s Los Angeles 74/50/s 80/52/s Mammoth Mountain 41/8/s 47/12/s Modesto 64/38/s 67/40/s Monterey 62/40/s 62/41/s Moreno Valley 67/40/s 81/39/s Napa 62/34/s 65/36/s Needles 68/50/s 74/52/s Oakland 62/42/s 63/43/s Oxnard 68/48/s 71/48/s Redding 66/35/s 67/37/pc Riverside 67/38/s 77/36/s Sacramento 61/35/s 65/38/s San Bernardino 70/43/s 79/42/s San Diego 72/50/s 76/49/s San Francisco 60/43/s 61/44/s San Jose 64/39/s 66/40/s San Luis Obispo 70/43/s 74/45/s Santa Ana 75/50/s 78/50/s Santa Barbara 65/40/s 67/43/s Santa Clarita 65/44/s 70/45/s Stockton 63/36/s 66/37/s Ventura 66/47/s 71/47/s Yosemite Valley 55/28/s 59/29/s Today Thursday Albuquerque 51/26/s 57/31/s Atlanta 76/44/t 60/39/s Baltimore 76/44/t 54/30/pc Boston 62/48/r 49/28/pc Buffalo 60/24/r 35/21/pc Chicago 45/26/r 38/21/sf Cincinnati 65/33/t 46/28/pc Dallas 67/39/s 66/41/s Denver 44/22/s 50/26/s Detroit 64/27/r 41/23/pc El Paso 64/36/s 69/41/s Fargo 27/13/sn 20/8/pc Honolulu 78/66/t 80/69/pc Houston 81/47/c 70/44/s Indianapolis 62/31/r 41/27/pc Kansas City 53/26/pc 55/25/s Las Vegas 61/43/s 67/45/s Louisville 69/37/t 53/34/pc Miami 84/72/pc 84/68/t Minneapolis 36/21/sf 31/14/c New Orleans 82/56/c 65/49/s New York City 70/48/sh 49/33/pc Oklahoma City 61/30/s 64/35/s Unusual warmth will hold over the Appalachians and the Atlantic Seaboard today. As colder air slices into the warmth from the Central states, showers and thunderstorms will frequent areas from the central Gulf Coast to the Northeast states. Some of the thunderstorms can be severe from the central Appalachians and mid-Atlantic coast to the interior South. Included in the severe weather threat will be the risk of a few tornadoes. The air will be cold enough to allow some snow and flurries over the Upper Midwest, northern Plains and northern Rockies. High ............................. 96° in McAllen, TX Low .......................... -20° in Big Piney, WY High ....... 109° in Uitenhage, South Africa Low ............ -47° in Tadoule Lake, Canada Bogota 65/48/pc 66/45/pc Buenos Aires 88/70/pc 92/61/t Caracas 85/77/pc 87/79/pc Ensenada 70/50/s 75/48/s Mexico City 82/49/s 75/49/pc Montreal 49/27/r 28/13/c Rio de Janeiro 94/79/pc 92/78/pc Tijuana 72/48/s 74/48/s Toronto 59/19/t 32/18/pc Vancouver 47/38/r 47/38/r Orlando 88/65/pc 85/59/c Philadelphia 73/48/t 52/32/pc Phoenix 68/47/s 77/54/s Pittsburgh 66/34/t 41/28/c Portland, ME 53/44/r 46/18/pc Portland, OR 50/39/sh 48/41/sh St. Louis 55/33/c 56/29/s Salt Lake City 41/25/pc 46/27/pc Seattle 49/43/r 48/44/r Tucson 70/42/s 78/50/s Washington, DC 76/46/t 55/36/pc Cairo 78/57/s 74/56/pc Casablanca 66/47/s 72/49/s Johannesburg 79/58/pc 76/59/pc Kinshasa 90/74/c 90/73/pc Lagos 90/78/t 91/79/t Nairobi 81/54/pc 84/58/pc Tripoli 73/47/pc 70/50/s Baghdad 76/53/c 73/50/pc Beijing 47/24/pc 59/30/s Hong Kong 72/59/pc 71/60/s Jerusalem 61/49/sh 58/47/sh Kabul 50/30/s 51/27/s Manila 88/74/s 88/74/pc Melbourne 89/59/s 81/64/s New Delhi 85/56/t 83/55/pc Seoul 48/29/r 44/25/pc Singapore 83/76/t 83/77/t Sydney 77/69/t 78/70/t Tehran 61/41/s 61/44/c Tokyo 50/45/pc 52/43/r Amsterdam 47/40/sh 47/40/r Athens 66/52/pc 64/46/s Belgrade 57/35/r 59/42/s Berlin 47/37/pc 45/36/r Budapest 47/31/pc 50/33/pc Dublin 47/35/r 46/37/r London 46/40/r 51/42/c Madrid 59/39/pc 61/40/s Moscow 39/34/c 39/31/sh Paris 52/41/r 53/41/pc Rome 60/42/pc 60/46/pc Stockholm 43/32/c 39/30/c Vienna 50/37/sh 57/35/sh Zurich 47/41/sh 50/30/pc 45/17 49/18 47/22 44/21 48/15 61/35 62/35 62/34 65/33 63/37 65/36 38/15 44/15 46/24 66/35 66/35 62/29 56/40 59/38 52/36 58/34 49/22 47/14 52/38 44/18 Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2017 WEARETHEONLYSTATECERTIFIED TRAINED RAPE CRISIS CENTER IN TEHAMA THAT HOLDS CONFIDENTIAL/ PRIVILEGE* *Ourservicesareconfidential,exceptwhenworkinginaschool.WearerequiredbylawtoreporttoChildrenServicesDivision. 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