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Great Basin Pulse

Use these readings

These are the same live numbers on Story and Explore, packed for a spreadsheet, a script, or a small site. They are reprints of public agency feeds, not a new official record.

Educational reprint of public USGS, NRCS, EPA AirNow, U.S. Drought Monitor, and NWS readings. Not official. Not for flood, fire, or regulatory decisions.

  • Truckee at Reno 343 cfs
  • Tahoe 6,227.24 ft (4.24 ft above rim)
  • Snow snow-free at the six pillows
  • Reno air AQI 43 Good
  • Drought D1 Moderate Drought

CSV

One row per reading. Forecast rows are labeled forecast so they do not sit next to USGS observations as if they were the same thing.

Download today's CSV

JSON

Stable public feed at /data/basin.json. CORS is open. Refresh is about a minute at the edge. Internal snapshot URLs under /api/snapshots/ can still change shape; this file is the one to pin to.

Embed

A small observed-only strip. It does not include the NWS forecast. Paste this on a page you control:

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