11/1/2024
WT Staff
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November 1, 2024 1120 am EDT
Ohio River minor tributary in Hamilton County hits extreme drought
Streamflow Situation from the network of USGS monitors in Ohio
Much cooler today, fair and 46 Friday morning in Wilmington, OH with an expected high of 56 coming. Mostly cloudy at Cleveland and 55 degrees, high of 54, continuing cloudy all day. The wind advisory has passed.
Current streamflows conditions continue predominantly below the 10th percentile through much of the state Friday. Muskingum and Little Muskingum Rivers are recording first percentile extreme low flows, Mill Creek is at first percentile near Coshocton. Flow below Greenup Dam on Ohio River is rated much below normal at 4th percentile, no longer at the extreme low.
Escalating drought for the second day in in Ohio River minor tributary Laughery Creek watershed. The Hamilton County watershed has gone from moderate drought Wednesday to severe drought yesterday, this morning up to the highest level, extreme drought. The rest of the drought map appears as reported here yesterday, a large area of central Ohio rated severe drought, one watershed in the northeast at severe (Grand River watershed), two watersheds in moderate drought impacting both sides of the drainage divide. Scioto River basin's Paint Creek watershed has recovered from moderate drought to a below normal rating Friday.
Twenty-five of 32 watersheds are rated on the drought map, an increase of one over yesterday. On the Lake Erie side of the divide, Blanchard River, Upper Maumee, and St Josephs watersheds remain unrated; Tiffin River watershed is back on the drought map at below normal in the northwest Lake Erie drainage area. In the northeast, Black-Rocky and Ashtabula-Chagrin watersheds remain unrated.
South of the drainage divide in the Mississippi basin, severe drought continues in Muskingum River basin, from Walhonding and adjacent Licking, Muskingum River and Little Muskingum River watersheds, along with Ohio River minor tributaries Wheeling Creek and Shade River watersheds. Moderate drought remains in Scioto basin's Tygarts Creek watershed. Just two watersheds in the Mississippi basin remain unrated on the drought map. Scioto River's upper drainage area remains unrated along with Wills Creek watershed in the Muskingum River basin.
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 31 at a high wind speed 24.9 mph. This capture is completely cloud obscured. This is the third image snapped at wind speed north of 20 mph. Even in the clear image of Oct 30 there are no HAB mats visible, likely due to the wind submerging the mat. The last time we saw HABs was Oct 28, that image grabbed at wind speed 5.4 mph. Here was saw Sandusky Bay HAB with partially dispersed widespread HABs in the inner and outer bay area both 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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