Above Average Temperatures for Most Today; Winter Weather Returns to the Upper Midwest and Great Lakes

Well above average temperatures are forecast today into Wednesday over most of the lower 48 states away from the Gulf Coast. A storm system passing across southern Canada will bring a wintry mix to the upper Great Lakes today. A trailing cold front will then bring the wintry mix from the central Appalachians through the Northeast U.S. Wednesday and Thursday. 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

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Above Average Temperatures for Most Today; Winter Weather Returns to the Upper Midwest and Great Lakes

New River Observation and Forecast Website