Below Normal Temperatures and Lake Effect Snow in the Eastern U.S.

Well below normal temperatures will continue across much of the eastern U.S. into Monday. Cold Weather Advisories have been issued from the Ohio Valley down to the northern Gulf Coast and southeast U.S. Heavy lake effect snow continues into Monday east of Lakes Erie and Ontario. Lake Effect Snow Warnings remain in effect. Read More >

The new NWS Hydrologic website, the National Water Prediction Service (NWPS), https://water.noaa.gov/ was released March 27, 2024.

Note, click the Rivers and Lakes tab on weather.gov/mkx to get to the new site, titled National Water Prediction Service (NWPS).

Some features of the new website:

Mobile-compatible
Dynamically-plotting hydrographs
Improved web map functionality and improved base maps and hydro-specific spatial layers
Application Programming Interface (API) - partners can leverage directly into their own applications

A summary of these features, along with video demonstrations is on this Story Map.

New URLs:

The links to river gauge pages will go from:

https://water.weather.gov/ahps2/hydrograph.php?wfo=mkx&gage=XXXW3 to https://water.noaa.gov/gauges/XXXW3

The direct links to static hydrographs will go from:

https://water.weather.gov/resources/hydrographs/XXXW3_hg.png to https://water.noaa.gov/resources/hydrographs/XXXW3_hg.png

You can provide feedback on the upgraded site here.

Questions? Can't find what your looking for? Contact Sarah Marquardt, Senior Service Hydrologist at sarah.marquardt@noaa.gov

Additional Resources

MKX RSS Feed

Below Normal Temperatures and Lake Effect Snow in the Eastern U.S.

New River Observation and Forecast Website