10/31/2024
WT Staff
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October 31, 2024 1052 am EDT
NWS: Wind Advisory in effect until 8pm, showers this afternoon and evening
Hazardous Weather Outlook issued 1010 am Thurs Oct 31 from NWS Cleveland
WIND ADVISORY NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING...Southwest winds 20 to 30 mph with gusts up to 50 mph through portions of north central and northwest Ohio. Gusty winds will blow around unsecured objects. Tree limbs could be blown down and a few power outages may result.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...Winds this strong can make driving difficult, especially for high
profile vehicles. Use extra caution. Secure outdoor objects.
Impacting Lucas-Wood-Ottawa-Sandusky-Erie-Lorain-Hancock-Seneca-Huron-
Wyandot-Crawford-Richland-Ashland-Marion-Morrow Counties, including the cities of Genoa, Lorain, North Ridgeville, Toledo,
Perrysburg, Oak Harbor, Upper Sandusky, Bucyrus, Mount Gilead, Findlay, Bellevue, Bowling Green, Norwalk, Ashland, Willard,
Galion, Crestline, Carey, Port Clinton, Fremont, Cardington, Mansfield, Elyria, Clyde, Sandusky, Fostoria, Avon Lake, Huron,
Marion, and Tiffin
Streamflow Situation from the network of USGS monitors in Ohio
Fair and 66 this hour at Marion Municipal Airport, high of 76 expected today with showers expected later this afternoon into the evening. The relative humidity is up, no elevated fire danger statement applies today, however the wind advisory with gusts to 50 mph would indicate a bad time for burning.
Current streamflows conditions run much below seasonal normal. Muskingum River continues to run at record low at Dresden and McConnelsville. Flow below Greenup Dam on Ohio River is at the most extreme low, 1st percentile today.
An escalation of severe drought overnight has gripped Ohio River minor tributary Laughery Creek watershed in Hamilton County, another severe drought condition has broken in the northeast, Grand River watershed jumped up from moderate to severe overnight. Scioto River basin's Paint Creek watershed has gone from below normal to moderate drought. Again today, 24 out of 32 watersheds are rated with some degree of drought, a bit of a change in those unrated. Coming out of drought overnight are St. Josephs River watershed, rated below normal yesterday, unrated today along with adjacent Upper Maumee and Tiffin River watersheds in the northwest Lake Erie drainage area. In the northeast, Black Rocky and Ashtabula-Chagrin watersheds remain unrated.
South of the drainage divide, into the Mississippi basin, at the center of the state, Scioto River's upper watershed has moved out of the drought window, unrated today. Severe drought continues in Muskingum River basin, from Walhonding and adjacent Licking, Muskingum River and Little Muskingum River watersheds another day. Adjacent in the Ohio River minor tributaries, Wheeling Creek and Shade River watersheds remain in severe hydrologic drought. Moderate drought remains in Scioto basin's Tygarts watershed, Ohio River minor tributary Raccoon-Symmes below normal.
North of the divide into the Lake Erie drainage area, Auglaize River and Lower Maumee River watersheds have stepped down from moderate drought to match adjacent Cedar-Portage with a below normal rating. This change leaves Sandusky River watershed the lone moderate drought rating in the Erie basin. South of the divide, Wills Creek and Upper Scioto are the only unrated watersheds.
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 30 at a high wind speed 21.2 mph. This capture is clear, after two days in a row with wind over 20 mph there are no HAB mats visible on the surface of the lake. A prior clear image captured Oct 28 at wind speed 5.4 mph showed Sandusky Bay HAB with partially dispersed widespread HABs in the inner and outer bay area east and west of OH 269 at the concentration 300 to 400 thousand cells per ml. A band of dispersed HABs was seen outside Sandusky Bay stretching east to Vermilion-on-the-Lake, encircling Kelleys Island with low concentration HABs, 100 thousand cells per ml or less.
See the latest NCCOS image, here.
NWS Cleveland calling for Snow Observers
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.
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