2/28/2024
WT Staff
HAPPENING NOW
NWS: Wind Warning - Gusts up to 50 mph
Zanesville BWA
Water news for Wednesday, February 28, 2024 updated 1146 am EST
Drinking Water Advisories
The City of Zanesville has issued a precautionary boil alert to all water customers due to a 16-inch water main break today. The BWA applies until further notice.
National Weather Service Hazardous Weather Outlook issued 931 am Wed Feb 28
WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM EST THIS EVENING...West winds 20 to 30 mph mph with gusts up to 50 mph expected.
Gusty winds could blow around unsecured objects.
Tree limbs could be blown down and a few power outages may result. Use extra caution when driving, especially if operating a high
profile vehicle. Secure outdoor objects.
Impacting Lorain-Cuyahoga-Geauga-Huron-Crawford-Richland-Ashland-Marion-Morrow Counties, inlcuding the cities of Lorain, Elyria, North Ridgeville,
Avon Lake, Cleveland, Chardon, South Russell, Bainbridge, Chesterland, Middlefield, Burton, Norwalk, Willard, Bucyrus, Galion, Crestline, Mansfield, Ashland, Marion, Mount Gilead and Cardington.
Drought map from USGS Waterwatch 7-day average streamflow compared with historic flow for today's date
Auglaize River watershed is back on the drought map Wednesday as Blanchard River watershed departs. In the northeast, the Grand River and Cuyahoga River watersheds remain below normal, currently also under high wind advisory until tonight.
South of the height-of-land, Ohio River minor tributaries Shenango River, Little Beaver Creek and Brush-Whiteoak watershed are cleared from drought status, leaving Raccoon-Symmes and Laughery watersheds remaining below normal Wednesday. All traces of drought have come away from the Muskingum River Basin. Scioto River basin leaves only the Paint Creek watershed below normal Wednesday. Lower Great Miami River watershed remains below normal today as we have reported earlier this week, Monday and Tuesday.
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.
Harmful Algal Bloom HAB Update
The latest image captured by satellite is dated Feb 26, a perfectly clear image of west basin Lake Erie taken at a low surface wind speed, 2.6 mph.
Here we see clear water from Maumee Bay up the Michigan shoreline past Detroit, including the Canadian shore, no visible HAB activity. The Ohio shoreline is clear, open water clear of HAB activity with a small localized HAB in the east harbor Catawba Island, small localized HAB on shore near outlet of Huron River and an open water HAB visible in this image from Toledo to Vermilion-on-th-Lake where the frame ends.
USGS Provisional Data Statement
Data are provisional and subject to revision until they have been thoroughly reviewed and received final approval. Current condition data relayed by satellite or other telemetry are automatically screened to not display improbable values until they can be verified.
Provisional data may be inaccurate due to instrument malfunctions or physical changes at the measurement site. Subsequent review based on field inspections and measurements may result in significant revisions to the data.
Data users are cautioned to consider carefully the provisional nature of the information before using it for decisions that concern personal or public safety or the conduct of business that involves substantial monetary or operational consequences. Information concerning the accuracy and appropriate uses of these data or concerning other hydrologic data may be obtained from the USGS.
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