9/30/2024
WT Staff
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September 30, 2024 845 am EDT
Extreme drought through Lake Ontario west watershed
Patchy fog and cloud upstate Monday, according to NWS Binghamton. Mostly normal streamflow levels statewide with a smattering of much below normal provisional readings on rivers creeks and streams in an arc through the interior west to north east. A few below normal flows remain in the Hudson River basin tributaries. A couple of much above seasonal normal levels are currently recorded in the Delaware River watershed, along with much above seasonal normal flow levels released through the Croton River watershed.
Extreme drought has taken hold in Lake Ontario minor tributaries west section impacting Niagara, Orleans and west Monroe Counties. Niagara River Lake Erie watershed has below normal rating through Erie County, the Oswegatchie River channel is rated below normal in west St Lawrence County and north Washington, south Essex are also below normal, this is part of the Lake Champlain watershed. No hazardous weather in the forecast, no active flooding, extreme high or low flows Monday.
WT HAB Tracker from the satellite monitoring program of the NOAA National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science(NCCOS), Cyanobacteria Assessment Network (CyAN) and State sources where available
New York
Two hundred and sixty two is the count on the active HAB notifications board Monday morning with new bloom activity showing up in Waneta Lake, a batch of new reports confirmed in Skaneateles Lake, one of the top four HAB impacted water bodies this season, currently hosting 45 algal blooms. Seneca Lake active HABs are down by 50%, 62 remaining there. Canandaigua Lake likewise has retired half the HAB reports seen last week, 44 blooms remaining here. Updates are in progress, the latest impacted water body list is available here.
The latest satellite image of Lake Champlain was captured September 29, partially cloud obscured and taken at unknown surface wind speed. Baie Missisquoi shows small open water HABs at low concentration 100 thousand cells per ml. First bluegreen of the season is showing on the New York side of the lake between Point Au Roche and North Hero Island, low concentration 100 thousand cells per ml or less. Lake Carmi in Vermont is presenting lakewide HAB of high concentration 900 thousand cells per ml.
See the NCCOS color image of Lake Champlain here.
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