New River Observation and Forecast Website

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

Questions? Can't find what your looking for? Contact Sarah Marquardt, Senior Service Hydrologist at sarah.marquardt@noaa.gov

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