11/2/2024
WT Staff
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November 2, 2024 updated 309 pm EDT
Toledo BWA
Safe Drinking Water Advisories
Lucas County: City of Toledo issued a BWA yesterday for water customers connecting along a stretch of Secor Road in west Toledo, impacting two restaurants. The advisory is set to expire today, Saturday, Nov. 2 at 5 p.m. EDT.
Streamflow Situation from the network of USGS monitors in Ohio
Sunny with a high of 56 in the north, sunny and slightly warmer, 60 degrees in the south while the drought continues. Seven monitoring stations record extreme low flows Saturday, these are found in Muskingum River basin and Ohio minor tributaries of the southeast.
Streams run below 10th percentile in most watersheds, the most common rating statewide again today. The drought map has rated Grand River watershed in the northeast at extreme hydrologic drought, this rating had applied for one day to the southwest Laughery Creek watershed in Hamilton County, back down to severe status. Also in the northeast, Cuyahoga River watershed has darkened into moderate drought from the below normal rating there yesterday. Severe and moderate drought ratings appear on both sides of the drainage divide.
Twenty-five of 32 watersheds are rated with some degree of drought from below normal to extreme. On the Lake Erie side of the divide, northwest Sandusky River watershed has jumped up to moderate drought. Blanchard River, Upper Maumee, and St Josephs watersheds remain unrated, all other watersheds are below normal in the northwest. In the northeast, Black-Rocky and Ashtabula-Chagrin watersheds remain unrated, Cuyahoga is moderate drought and Grand River is at the extreme, as reported above.
South of the drainage divide in the Mississippi basin, severe drought continues in Muskingum River basin including Walhonding, Muskingum, Hocking and Little Muskingum River watersheds. Adjacent Ohio River minor tributaries Wheeling Creek and Shade River watersheds are likewise rated severe drought. Moderate drought has expanded from Scioto basin's Tygarts Creek watershed into neighboring Ohio River minor tributary Raccoon-Symmes Creeks watershed, moderate drought rating is also applied to the Scioto River basin's Paint Creek watershed. The same two watersheds are missing from the drought map in the south, Upper Scioto River and Muskingum basin's Wills Creek watershed are as of now unrated. All other area is rated below normal, including all of Great Miami 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 Nov 1 at a high wind speed 22.3 mph. This capture is mostly cloud obscured with localized HAB activity noted along shore of Reno Beach as the weather gets cooler. This is the fourth day in a row of high wind that will be keeping those HAB mats underwater where we can't see them. The last time we saw extensive HAB activity was Oct 28, that image was taken at a wind speed about 25 % above the threshhold for a reliable assessment of HAB extent, 5.4 mph. Here we 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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