Evaporating and warmer Lake Tahoe has more clarity

While Lake Tahoe’s iconic blueness and clarity often garner all the attention during annual State of the Lake reports, it was the lake’s increasing rate of evaporation in 2014 that most surprised the report’s author this year.While the lake’s water level continues to drop due to a number of factors, it’s actually helping improve clarity, which is the best it’s been in more than a decade, improving from 70.2 feet in 2013 to 77.8 feet in 2014, according to the report released Thursday