Monday, March 02, 2020

February 2020 Lake Levels and Flow Rates

I'm just going to throw this one out there. I made the silly mistake of snowboarding last weekend in Wisconsin and took a gnarly fall. "Oh, the pain" as Dr. Zachary Smith used to say. :P

So, about the only interesting thing to say is that things are pretty normal for levels, but flow is still relatively high. Having just come from "up north" I can tell you there is a lot of water heading our way this spring. Plenty of snow still on the ground there that will eventually make it's way to us in one way or another.


Notice how closely lake levels match the new 10 year average (orange dots) in the hourly chart below!


Lake levels are slowly rising and it looks as if we may have already reached maximum draw down on February 24th. But we've still got a week or more before the average low point, and I've been fooled before so I'll wait to make the call. A clip of the candlestick graph below for the year so far makes this easier to see.