12/1/2024
WT Staff
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December 1, 2024 1112 am EST
Streamflows edging lower statewide, Upper Oconee River watershed on the drought map
Streamflow Situation from the network of the USGS monitoring stations in Georgia
Fair, 49 degrees at Warner Robins Air Force Base, becoming mostly sunny with a high of 56 Sunday. The report coming out of Charleston, SC weather office for the coastal Georgia region, sunny today high 60. Streamflows have turned downward statewide, the north has shifted from largely normal to below seasonal normal, central Georgia water levels measured in the rivers and streams both sides of the drainage divide heading lower, mostly below normal Sunday. The southeast is down from 90th percentile to below the 75th percentile measured water levels in the Atlantic drainage area. No active flooding or high flows are detected in the network as of this report, no extreme low flows.
The drought map has shifted over the weekend, an increasing area in the Upper Atlantic drainage basin shows up with a drought rating Sunday. Hart, Banks, Franklin, Madison, Oglethorpe, Elbert and Lincoln Counties of the Savannah River watershed continue below normal, joined by Rabun, Habersham and Stephens Counties. Adjacent watershed Upper Oconee River is now rated below normal from Jackson to Barrow, Athens and Clarke Counties, east Walton, Morgan, Jasper, Putnam and Greene Counties below normal. In the south Atlantic basin, Charlton County continues below normal in the St Marys River watershed. On the Mississippi River side of the drainage divide in north Georgia, the Tennessee River watersheds east and west remain below normal.
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