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4 April 2024
This morning I checked NOAA’s Nationwide Water Prediction Service and noticed there was a significant flood at the moment on the Monongahela River at Braddock Lock & Dam, simply upriver from Duck Hole. It appeared like it will crest this morning …
… so I rushed all the way down to Duck Hole simply after dawn and right here’s what I noticed.
Monongahela River flood on 4 April 2024, 7:20am: 9 Mile Run and Duck Hole Car parking zone
It was so deep that the car parking zone rubbish can was floating. Evidently there have been no barges or geese on the river.
The birds had been singing as I filmed the river on the mouth of 9 Mile Run.
Was I there for the crest? I took a two minute video whereas the water was rising. See the pink line indicating the excessive water mark in these slides from my video.
Because it seems the river crested at the moment at 4:00am EDT.
The Nationwide Climate Service says we’ve damaged the document for the wettest begin of any yr in Pittsburgh since record-keeping started in 1871.
No surprise there’s a flood.
(images and movies by Kate St. John; diagrams from @NWSPittsburgh)
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