Areas of Showers and Thunderstorms to Start the Work Week

Areas of rain and thunderstorms are forecast Monday across the central and eastern states. Some mixed rain and snow is possible in the high Sierra Mountains. Heavy to excessive rain may bring flooding in the central Appalachians. 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

Areas of Showers and Thunderstorms to Start the Work Week

New River Observation and Forecast Website