2/16/2024
WT Staff
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NWS: Winter Weather Advisory
Snow for central Ohio
Water news for Friday, February 16, 2024 951 am EST
National Weather Service Hazardous Weather Outlook issued 308 am Feb 16
WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 1 AM EST SATURDAY...Snow expected, total snow accumulations of 1 to 3 inches in portions of east central and southeast Indiana and central, southwest and west central Ohio. Plan on slippery road conditions. The hazardous
conditions could impact the evening commute.
Impacting Wayne-Fayette-Union-Franklin-Darke-Miami-Champaign-Clark-Madison-
Licking-Preble-Montgomery-Greene-Pickaway-Fairfield-Butler-Warren-
Clinton Counties.
Including the cities of Richmond, Connersville, Liberty, West College Corner, Brookville, Greenville, Troy, Piqua, Tipp City, Urbana, Springfield, London, West Jefferson, Plain City, Downtown Columbus, Newark, Eaton, Camden, Downtown Dayton, Kettering, Beavercreek, Fairborn, Xenia,
Washington Court House, Circleville, Lancaster, Pickerington, Hamilton, Middletown, Fairfield, Oxford, Mason, Lebanon, Landen, Springboro, Franklin, Wilmington, and Blanchester
Streamflow Situation from USGS Waterwatch based on real-time flow monitors across Ohio
The ratings have shifted further below normal Friday, combined with a high winds today will escalate drought conditions north of the state drainage divide Friday.
Sevenmile Creek is flowing low at Camden in the Great Miami basin.
Drinking Water Matters
Lake Erie is the drinking water source for 12.5 million people in Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York and Ontario, Canada, including 3 million people in Ohio.
Countdown is on to the critical window for Lake Erie water quality 2024. WTOH.us is observing and reporting streamflow levels in the west Lake Erie drainage basin, also known as the Maumee River basin, check back here for a daily update on the moisture conditions in this sensitive landscape with the potential to accelerate or manage the Lake Erie HAB for the upcoming season.
Drought map from USGS Waterwatch 7-day average streamflow compared with historic flow for today's date
Maumee Basin: St Marys River joins Blanchard River and Auglaize River watershed at below normal Friday.
To the east in the Lake Erie drainage basin Ashtabula-Chagrin River and Grand River watersheds rated below normal.
South of the drainage divide, Upper Scioto River watershed appeared back on drought map Thursday. Adjacent in the Muskingum River basin, the Hocking River watershed rated below normal. Adjacent Ohio River minor tributaries Raccoon-Symmes, Shade River and Little Muskingum River watersheds remain below normal Thursday. Upper Ohio River minor tributary Little Beaver Creek watershed is new on the map today at below normal.
Lower Great Miami River watershed remains below normal again today.
The height-of-land divide in Ohio runs from Mercer County in the west angling northeast up to Ashtabula County on the east state border. Streamflows north of the divide feed Lake Erie, flows south of the divide run to the Ohio River, part of the Mississippi River basin that drains the majority of interior North America to the Gulf of Mexico.
Drinking Water Matters
Hillsboro City officials issued a boil water advisory Feb 12 for residents living on Marys Lane and Elizabeth Drive until further notice.
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