Experimental contiguous USA stream water temperature forecast with TempEst-NEXT:
This week, stream temperatures are expected to hold relatively steady compared to the volatility of the last few weeks. Streams in most of the country are expected to warm moderately over the week, with some areas of cooling in the Northwest. The West Coast is and will remain cooler than average, while the northern half of the eastern US is a bit on the warm side. Predicted temperatures are still in the single digits Celsius (30s-40s Fahrenheit) in the mountains and far north, but are mostly in the teens (50s-60s) elsewhere, ranging up to the high 20s (low 80s) in the Southeast and Arizona. (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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