Thursday Top of the Scroll: Tahoe’s average clarity decreases by 8 feet in 2019
Unlike in recent years when researchers were able to point to a dominant factor affecting lake clarity like drought or higher-than-average precipitation, 2019 saw a range of influences on Tahoe, including lake mixing for the first time in several years, sediment, algae, and climate warming. Those factors, according to the University of California, Davis Tahoe Environmental Research Center, combined to cause a roughly 8-foot decrease in average clarity from the previous year’s 10-foot improvement.
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