10/27/2024
WT Staff
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October 27, 2024 219 pm EDT
New snow spotters needed - volunteer To measure snow for the National Weather Service
The National Weather Service (NWS) in Cleveland is looking for new volunteers to measure snow in the Snow Observation Program. If you are already in the program, you do not need to re-apply.
New snow observers are needed in all of the counties that NWS Cleveland serves. Check the openings on the map of snow spotters locations, here.
Each snowflake represents an existing snow spotter. NWS is hoping to fill the gaps for the 2024-2025 winter season.
Streamflow Situation from the network of USGS monitors in Ohio
Sunny again on Sunday, almost at the daily high 57, no hazardous weather in the forecast for the Cleveland area. The streamflow dashboard continues to reflect the low streamflow levels from a prolonged dry perioed. Severe drought continues to grip the southeast from the central Muskingum River basin to the Ohio River. Severe drought rating remains for all of the Walhonding, Muskingum River, Wills Creek and Little Muskingum River watersheds into the weekend, along with adjacent Ohio River minor tributaries Wheeling Creek, and Shade River watersheds, also in severe hydrologic drought.
On the north side of the divide, Lake Erie west drainage area's Auglaize and Lower Maumee River watersheds remain in moderate drought with adjacent Upper Maumee, St Josephs and Cedar Portage River watersheds below normal. To the east, Huron-Vermilion River watersheds have dipped below normal. Rated below normal on the Mississippi River side of the divide, Upper Great Miami and Little Miami River watersheds run below normal on the drought map, adjacent Paint Creek watershed of the Scioto River basin is again below normal, as is Upper Scioto River watershed. Much of the Muskingum River basin is on the drought map, if not in severe drought then below normal, including Tuscarawas and Hocking River watersheds. Ohio River minor tributaries Shenango in the northeast, Little Beaver Creek, Raccoon-Symmes and Laughery are rated below normal. As of this report there are no floods or high flows, there are severeal low flows, including 1st percentile extreme lows all over the map.
WT HAB Tracker from the satellite monitoring program of the NOAA National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science(NCCOS)
The latest upload from NCCOS was captured Oct 26 at surface wind speed 18.9 mph. The image is completely clear, the high wind speed is very likely causing HABs to mix down into the water column, where we cannot detect it by the photo capture. Dispersed open water HAB in Sandusky Bay looks around 600 thousand cells per ml. East of Sandusky Bay, a widespread HAB extends clear down to Vermilion-on-the-Lake, piled up along the shoreline, this band of HAB is approximately 2 nm wide at 100 thousand cells per ml.
See the latest NCCOS image, here.
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