10/24/2024
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October 24, 2024 updated 1258 pm EDT
NWS: Elevated fire hazard for southeast NY, Johnstown issues BWA
Special Weather Statement issued by NWS New York 822 pm Wed Oct 23
ELEVATED RISK FOR FIRE SPREAD IN SOUTHEAST NEW YORK ON
THURSDAY... Minimum relative humidity values will drop to 35 to 45 percent on
Thursday and winds will be breezy from the north with gusts as high as 25 to 30 mph. These conditions will contribute to an
elevated risk of fire spread on Thursday.
Use caution when handling ignition sources.
Impacting Orange-Putnam-Rockland-Northern Westchester-Southern Westchester-
New York (Manhattan)-Bronx-Richmond (Staten Island)-
Kings (Brooklyn)-Northwest Suffolk-Northeast Suffolk-
Southwest Suffolk-Southeast Suffolk-Northern Queens-
Northern Nassau-Southern Queens-Southern Nassau Counties.
Safe Drinking Water Advisories
Fulton County: Johnstown has issued a BWA following a water main break yesterday. The advisory is a necessary precaution for those impacted by the loss of service and or drop in water pressure. Customers connecting on County Highway 131A between house 282 and 288 as well as portions of Hulbert and LaGrange roads are advised to boil all water intended for consumption or oral hygiene for at least one minute to sanitize the water until further notice. Johnstown Waterworks supplies 8154 residential customers from a surface water source in the Mohawk River watershed. A check of the compliance history online shows Johnstown with an impeccable record, no significant violations or non-compliance matters with the Safe Drinking Water Act, according to the EPA.
WT HAB Tracker from the satellite monitoring program of the NOAA National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science(NCCOS) and NYS DEC
New York
Seventy eight HABs active on the DEC notifications board Thursday afternoon, up from 73 this morning. Cayuta Lake is back on the active list. A first HAB of the season has been confirmed in Melody Lake in Cortland County. Back on the active list, Agawam Lake in Suffolk County and Canandaigua Lake. Beaver Dam Lake has been hit with a late outbreak of HAB, 24 current bluegreen reports account for one third of all active HABs in the state. Reports made prior to Oct 9 have moved into the archive file for the season, that set of records numbering 1971. Our impacted water body list is in the process to roll over to the archive report for the season, here.
The latest satellite image of Lake Champlain was captured Oct 23, a mostly cloud obscured view, the prior image shows no HAB activity noted in Lake Champlain. Lake Carmi maintains widespread HAB around 600 thousand cells per ml. See the NCCOS color image of Lake Champlain here.
Streamflow Situation from the USGS network of streamflow gauges
Partially cloudy today in NYC with a high of 65, due to the dry conditions in Long Island with low relative humidity and wind gusts, an elevated risk of fire spread. Cloudy today with a high of 55 upstate west NYS, clearing tonight with freezing and patchy fog. Statewide we are seeing much below seasonal normal water levels. Three low flows Thursday, including the extreme low first percentile on Raquette River at Raymondville, another low flow in the Lower Hudson River tributary Valatie Kill, another low recorded in the Croton River tributary West Branch Croton River near Croton Falls.
Lake Champlain watershed has stepped up to severe hydrologic drought through north Washington and east Essex. Lake Ontario minor tributaries west section has also stepped up a degree of drought from below normal to moderate drought, impacting Niagara, Orleans and west Monroe. St.Lawrence River watershed has also taken a turn, the Raquette River channel up to moderate drought with Oswegatchie channel to the west remaining below normal. Adjacent Black River watershed is rated below normal. Mohawk River watershed rated below normal in the Schoharie Creek channel west of the Catskills, adjacent Delaware, Ramapo and Lower Hudson River watersheds are below normal. Long Island Sound watershed remains below normal through south Westchester and Richmond Counties as elevated risk for fire spread is issued by the NWS.
As of this report, there are no flood events registering in the network, no extreme high (99th percentile) flows.
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