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Flood Monitoring Program

Sidney High School Flood Monitoring Program

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Flood Watch in effect until Saturday at 8AM

The heaviest of rain will stay over the Catskills today, but we will still see a fair amount and there is some cause for concern.

Light to moderate rain will fall through mid-evening tonight with the heavier rain in eastern portions of the basin.  Showers will continue through the morning hours Saturday.
Current thinking is for and average of 1.5" over the watershed with the west seeing closer to 1" and the east 2".
8AM river level is 974.1ft.  Expect the river to crest between 978.5-980.5' early tomorrow afternoon.  This will cause some flooding at Keith Clark Park and the extreme end of the Willow St. extension, and possibly to River St. at the Camp St.  intersection.
Flash flooding is a possibility again today with streams still flowing at moderate levels this morning.


Summer Work 2024.  We will be busy again this summer installing three new satellite transmitters and doing general station maintenance.
 
 
Click the links below to view the videos about our network.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmODHxJaQQs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsnYC0DonPY

The Sidney High School Flood Monitoring Program was started through a Service-Learning grant from State Farm Insurance in 2007. Our students have installed, and continue to maintain eight remote rainfall/weather/stream gauge stations in the upper Susquehanna River basin. These stations are located in the townships of Plainfield, Hartwick, Worcester, Edmeston, Sidney Center (one precipitation and one stream gauge station), Sidney, and Milford and are equipped with satellite transmitters.
 
Data from these stations is sent to the GOES-East weather satellite every hour. We then download the data and data from other stations from the GOES system.
 
Our network of stations are displayed through the National Weather Service's HADS network. This data is what we now display in our links on the right side of this page.

We interpret this data, and using our mathematical model and computer model weather forecasting data, issue our Local Weather Forecasts and our Flood Potential Forecasts. You may access this information through the links above, as well as the latest graphs from our stations, and some links to important National Weather Service sites.