Tahoe’s Miracle March falls short of 1991 original
By Benjamin Spillman, Reno Gazette-Journal
Tahoe’s drastic, late-season snowpack recovery was the weather equivalent to the TV show “Fuller House,” a sequel that fueled nostalgia for the early 1990s but didn’t quite measure up to the original.
From March 1 through Sunday snowpack in the Lake Tahoe area grew from 25 to 73 percent of the median peak for the basin, an increase of 48 percentage points.
The recovery was enough to push the season’s snow totals from dismal to respectable and conjure memories of the “Miracle March,” of 1991.
But by the numbers it fell slightly short of matching that legendary period.