The weekly national (contiguous USA) stream temperature forecast continues:
This week will generally be on the average-to-cold side. Cooling is expected in the Northeast, Southern California, and northwestern Great Plains, while the rest of the country will hold steady or warm slightly. Temperature anomalies will exceed 5 C/9 F in both directions, with high temperatures in the Midwest and the Rocky Mountains but cold-to-average conditions elsewhere. Predicted temperatures are still in the single digits C (30s-40s F) in the high mountains and the colder-than-average regions above, but are mostly in the teens and 20s (50s-70s) east of the Rockies, with the southernmost streams hitting the 30s (80s-90s). (This forecast is for a total of 913 small [HUC-12] watersheds randomly selected from around the country.)
Warning: this is an experimental stream water temperature forecast for the upcoming week. Results are not guaranteed in any capacity. Typical errors are approximately 2.5 C. These data and related items of information have not been formally disseminated by NOAA, and do not represent any agency determination, view, or policy. This research is funded by the NOAA Cooperative Institute for Research to Operations in Hydrology.
The code used to generate these forecasts is available on GitHub at https://github.com/mines-ciroh/natl-temp-forecast (requires support for ecCodes, for which Linux is recommended).
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