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The current water temperature in Lake Tahoe is 42.3°F.
Tahoe doesn’t freeze because it is too deep and contains too much water.
At 22 miles long with a maximum depth of 1,645 feet, its depth-to-area is very large compared to other lakes.Â
False. Lake Baikal, by far both the deepest and largest by volume lake in the world, freezes every winter for 5 months. Parts of the ocean many times larger than Tahoe freeze, as well. So the real answer is that it doesn’t really get cold enough for long enough in Tahoe.
Corners and edges of Tahoe freeze all the time