Afternoon winds on June 1 brought out kite surfers on the South Shore. Photo/LTN

By Kathryn Reed

Keep the sunscreen handy, it’s just going to get hotter.

Temps in the Lake Tahoe Basin are expected to stay above normal through Saturday.

“We are not going to be this hot the rest of the summer. We had all those cold low pressures moving inland. This time it stayed off the coast so the high pressure could build and strengthen,” NWS meteorologist Mark Deutschendorf told Lake Tahoe News.

If record highs are going to be broken, it will mostly happen on Friday or Saturday, according to the National Weather Service in Reno.

Stats from the NWS:

·      June 3

·      South Lake Tahoe record high – 80, set in 1980

Forecast high – 81

·      Tahoe City record high – 83, set in 1924

Forecast high – 77

·      Truckee record high – 88, set in 1912

Forecast high – 86

·      June 4

·      South Lake Tahoe record high – 83, set in 2013

Forecast high – 81

·      Tahoe City record high – 83, set in 1992

Forecast high – 79

·      Truckee record high – 87, set in 2003

Forecast high – 89.

“There’s a little bit of a lake influence forecast for that side,” Deutschendorf said of the North Shore.

Temperatures will be trending lower starting Sunday, returning to normal for early June, which is right about 70 degrees for the basin.

There is a slight chance of late afternoon thunderstorms on Saturday and Sunday. The unstable conditions could last into Monday.