11/14/2024
WT Staff
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November 14, 2024 1159 am EST
Rain today in the north brings drought relief
Streamflow Situation from the network of USGS monitoring sites in the rivers and creeks of Ohio
Rainy today with a high 49 for Lake Erie drainage basin north central Ohio. Streamflows have picked up to seasonal normal across the west and central watersheds, the exception being the Lake Erie northeast and Upper Ohio River minor tributaries water levels still below normal to much below normal for this time of year. Two watersheds are holding on to the moderate drought rating, Ohio River minor tributary Raccoon-Symmes and Grand River watershed in the northeast. Muskingum River basin and Upper Ohio minor tributaries remain below normal, along with the majority of Lake Erie northwest watersheds. Great Miami and Scioto basins are largely unrated on the drought map another day. See the map to the right for 1st percentile extreme low flows, marked up with red-brown location tags.
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 13 at surface wind speed 23 mph. This image is clear with a good view to the shorelines and open water of Lake Erie. There are localized HABs along the Ohio shoreline from Port Clinton to Catawba Island, small open water HABs in Sandusky Bay and a large area of dispersed HAB mats east of Sandusky Bay, the concentration is low, 100 thousand cells per ml or less. High wind is a factor for submerging the bloom mats.
See the latest NCCOS image, here.
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