have looked at the tahoe basin as a single entity. here we've looked at 60 different sub basins for that. so less snow, warmer temperatures. how much you ask? yeah we have come up with a new measure that looks at the amount of snow on the ground. and we said how many days are there going to be with ten inches or more snow on the ground? and we see that reduced by as much as 140 days. so more than four months of winter that we have now is going to go away by the end of the century under the most extreme greenhouse gas emissions under the 2080 scenario. >> okay, let's hope it's the 20/40 scenario. but what does this mean? mainly because you said the overall precipitation stays the same. so i'm hoping that doesn't impact the amount of water we get because usually we think of snowpack melt, we get water right. >> right. good question. so in some ways you can think of the snowpack as nature's reservoir, right? so as it snows, it's able to collect and it's able to be released more slowly as it melts as more precipitation comes as rainfall.

if it does happen, the tahoe basin will likely face a great risk of flooding and a much shorter ski seasonlike that one every weekday getting answers airs at 3 p.m. here on abc seven. and wherever you stream. all right. >> so let's look at the weather now. yeah >> meteorologist sandhya patel is here with an update. >> sandy yeah, ama and dan bundle up tonight because it is going to get chilly as we look at live doppler seven. we have some high clouds coming through here and those clouds will increase through the night tomorrow afternoon. they pretty much go away except for a few wispy clouds. it's going to be cooler than average tomorrow, but mainly sunny, breezy, upper 50s to the upper 60s. now, saturday mornings going to get even colder down near freezing in the north bay valleys, which means patchy frost is possible sunday. those temperatures coming up a little bit. and by monday it'll be a milder start to the morning. let's check out what's ahead for your afternoon highs there. coming up over the weekend, we're going to see some 70s popping up by sunday. we're looking at low to mid 70s

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