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New Page – Local Lake Levels

Saturday, February 24th, 2018 4:07pm CST

A new page has been added to the site that provides current local lake levels – https://www.planoweather.com/wxriverpage.php. It is configured to poll the 5 nearest Advanced Hydrologic Prediction Service (AHPS) monitored lakes. Data is updated to the page every 3 hours at 45 minutes past the hour. Clicking on each location will display its detailed page. For example, here are current details for Lake Lavon: https://www.planoweather.com/wxriverdetail.php?id=LVNT2

Station Rain Measurements

Saturday, February 24th, 2018 3:23pm CST

We use a manual rain gauge to backup and calibrate our station rain measurements. Here is Jessica performing her daily “chore” the morning of February 21, 2018. That is a lot of rain for a 24-hour period in February!