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.
The underlying USGS, NRCS, NWS, EPA AirNow, U.S. Drought Monitor, and similar agency readings remain public. Great Basin Pulse's compiled daily record (the organized numbers, Journal prose, and Today's Pulse text) is CC BY 4.0. Attribution back to Great Basin Pulse and greatbasinpulse.com is required. This is still educational, not an official alert. CC BY 4.0.
- Truckee at Reno 350 cfs
- Tahoe 6,226.63 ft (3.63 ft above rim)
- Snow 0.1 in SWE, mean of pillows with a reading
- 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.
Journal days are also JSON at /data/journal/YYYY-MM-DD.json.
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 strip of live readings. It does not include the NWS forecast. Paste this on a page you control:
USGS gauges only
Tahoe, Farad, and Reno from USGS. No snow, air, HAB, drought, or forecast. For partners who need observed river and lake numbers without mixed copy.