Rt. 281 into Confluence
I would have loved to do a live stream today, but the cards just didn’t fall into place. Sorry.
However, we did get several pictures from the flooding event across the Alleghenies. I’ll share a couple of them for you on here.
As of 9:00 PM on Saturday, rain totals look like this:
Altoona – 1.5″
State College – 1.8″
Johnstown – 1.1″
DuBois – 0.6″
Clearfield – 0.8″
Indiana – 1.1″
The storm is still expected to bring more rain (albeit lighter) through the day on Sunday and into Monday before coming to an end.
Rivers are expected to crests in flood stage across the region early Sunday morning. Some rivers will be into moderate or even major flood stage by the time all is said and done.
At the time of this post, rivers currently at flood or action stage include the Conemaugh River at Seward and the Youghiogheny River at Confluence. The Frankstown Branch of the Juniata and the Aughwick Creek at Shirleysburg are also at action or flood stage and expected to rise overnight. We’ll get a better idea and updated information after 10 PM at the AHPS River Forecasts website (which is currently down due to server issues).
In the meantime, you can get more river information by clicking on either of these links. One has information for rivers in the area covered by NWS Pittsburgh and one is for NWS State College. http://bit.ly/dwCyDi and http://bit.ly/bsyWgW
As promised, here are a couple of pictures…
Flooding in Seward (3-13)
Casselman River at Salisbury (3-13)
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All of your weather newscasts today Saturday have ignored the flooding warnings,gages, etc along the Frankstown Branch of the Junata River, one of the largest rivers in the area. You covered the Spruce Creek branch which is much smaller & the Aughwick in southern Huntingdon. The Frankstown branch runs from Bedford county, all through Blair to Alexandria & Huntingdon area. The gages for all sites are available on the USGS website, Frankstown branch is in Williamsburg,at:
http://waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis/uv?cb_all_00060_00065_00045=on&cb_00060=on&cb_00065=on&cb_00045=on&format=gif_stats&period=7&site_no=01556000
these sites work even if the NWS sites are down. There are more people effected along this branch than any other, including the entire town of Alexandria. This river is exceeding the 12 foot flood stage at this very momment and people are not getting the info from your newscasts.
Hey Ken. Sorry about that. It’s tough to get all of the information in the newscast. Looking back, I probably should have included that. I will add that to the blog. — Thinking back, I might have made a quick reference to it at 6 PM at some point. Not totally sure. There were so many numbers running through my head (current, flood stage, action stage, moderate stage, expected crest) that they all ran together.