TAHOE/TRUCKEE — Predicting how much snow will fall at Lake Tahoe is a long-held pastime of skiers, professional weather watchers, resort operators and barstool meteorologists alike. And the safe bet for precipitation pundits in coming years may be the under, according to a recently published study looking at the likelihood of high and low snowfall seasons on a warming planet. “What’s new about this study is we’re looking at the occurrence of extremes,” said Noah Diffenbaugh, a researcher at Stanford University and the lead author on the study published in the November edition of Nature Climate Change. Climate models used …