Locally Heavy Rainfall for the Carolinas; Thunderstorms and Fire Weather Concerns for Intermountain West

Heavy rainfall from scattered thunderstorms is expected across the Southwest, Intermountain West, and Plains. Isolated dry thunderstorms may initiate additional fires across the west. The coastal Carolinas may experience flash floods in the coming days due to repeated thunderstorms. Additionally, a wave of intense summer heat will hit the Southern Plains and central Gulf Coast States this week. 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

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Locally Heavy Rainfall for the Carolinas; Thunderstorms and Fire Weather Concerns for Intermountain West

New River Observation and Forecast Website