Current Conditions:
Weather can't be forecast more than a week or so in advance, but weather averages are good indicators of what to expect any month.

Weather forecasts don't necessarily agree and can differ by 10°. The Weather Channel seems to be the best.

Current Conditions:

Weather Chnl: Tahoe City, Lake Tahoe
The Weather Underground: Tahoe City, Soda Springs
WeatherCentral: Tahoe City
AccuWeather: Lake Tahoe | Soda Springs
NWS: Tahoe City (forecast.weather.gov) (click on map for specific location)

Precipitation season % of normal at NWS:
Lake Tahoe, Truckee River/Soda Springs/Mt Rose Data at Truckee River Operating Agreement (TROA) Information System

Snow depth:
See Snow Page
Fire Restrictions (Tahoe NF, Tahoe Basin

Fire Map

Averages:

Air Temperature:
From 1910 to 2008 average Daily minimum temperature at Tahoe City has increased by more than 4 degrees F, and daily maximum temperature has risen by less than 2 degrees F.

Source: TERC State of the Lake 2009

Tahoe basin Precipitation:
varies by location. The Sierra rain shadow causes yearly precipitation to decrease as one moves east. Donner summit in the north and Echo summit in the south can get 80 in. per year. Carson City over the mountains to the east gets only 25 in. per year. Precipitation ranges from 40 inches per year (in/yr) on the eastern side to 90 in/yr on the western side according to the 1999 USGS Fact Sheet.
According to the Tahoe Environmental Research Center (TERC) From 1910 to 2008, average annual precipitation (water equivalent of rain and snow) was 31.6 inches. The maximum was 69.2 inches in 1982. The minimum was 9.2 inches in 1977. 2008 was the 12th driest year on record, with only 19.3 inches of precipitation.

Recent Years:
1910-2008 av. 32 in
1995-1999 av. 50 in
2000-2004 av. 26 in
2005 38 in
2006 48 in
2007 20
2008 19

Soda Springs

Month

Oct

Nov

Dec

Jan

Feb

Mar

Apr

May

Jun

Jul

Aug

Sep

Avg. High °F

60°

46°

39°

39°

42°

46°

52°

61°

70°

78°

77°

71°

Avg. Low °F

26°

20°

14°

14°

16°

20°

24°

29°

34°

37°

37°

32°

Record Low

7°

-10°

-28°

-21°

-33°

-9°

-3°

10°

18°

24°

25°

16°

Avg. Precip. (in.)

2.2

4.3

4.4

4.9

5.6

5.2

1.3

1.5

0.6

0.5

0.6

1.2

Snow - Soda Springs 1961-1998

Avg. snowfall (in.)

0

52

53

104

57

77

51

13

0.7

0

0

0

Avg. snow depth

0

3-18

18-45

40-80

80-100

90-105

90-50

50-10

10-0

0

0

0

Soda Springs data at The Weather Channel and accuweather
Similar data is available at the Western Regional Climate Center.
They did not have data for Soda Springs, similar lows occurred at Boca.

Created from data at Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS.usda.gov)

LINKS:
Northern California GCA at the National Weather Service by the U. Utah
Tahoe National Forest Snow Report
Sierra Avalanche Center
Western Region Climate Center at the Desert Research Institute (DRI)
  Northern California Map with stations
Averages at the Weather Channel

Links:
bThe World's Deepest Snow (PHOTOS) - weather.com

See more about snow on the snow page.