Watching the Methow River level rise and fall daily on the SNOFLO website. The river is measured real time in "cubic feet per second." This morning in Twisp, the gauge recorded 7,660 cfs, a 39% increase over yesterday, about 109% of normal for this time of year.
Day over day, it can vary over a 1000 cfs. Right now, the Methow is at the highest level so far this spring. Just FYI, over 9,000 cfs in Twisp is considered flood stage.
What can you do with this information? Absolutely nothing. It's pointless to worry. But I find it fascinating how "our" river and hundreds of other across the nation are tracked so accurately by the USGS. Who knew?
To say the Northwest weather is weird this spring is a real understatement. We just had a brief but torrential thunderstorm, rare in Seattle any time, almost unheard of at 6 am. Eastern and Central Washington seeing the same unsettled weather, with flash flooding in the mountains. Along with the snow melt, this of course affects the river levels.
Here it is Friday again, with another soggy weekend ahead of us. They say we might get an entire June's worth of rain in the next 3 days.
See you Monday.
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