virgin flow rate (are you serious)

[canyonguru]

i have been coming to zion for a while now probably not as long as a lot of you guys that live there or close to zion. but almost 700cfs, that seems pretty high to me. i remember doing orderville and the virgin was around 88cfs and it seemed to be going at a pretty good pace.

http://waterdata.usgs.gov/ut/nwis/uv/?site_no=09405500&PARAmeter_cd=00065,00060,00010,00095,72020

hope the link works if not just go to the nps page and look up the virgin river flow rate. i wish i was up there today to check it out. was there any flash's that anyone knows of....... i am kinda of a weather junky.

[Scott P]

Tom Jones posted on the canyons group that the river is running very high.


Lots of monsoon action in Zion today. An afternoon set of storms
punched the N Fork of the Virgin up above 500 cfs!

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/canyons/message/45919

[moab mark]

any pictures?

[Alex]

I wonder if it's just a flush flood, the spikes look like they don't last very long

[trackrunner]

I wonder if it's just a flush flood, the spikes look like they don't last very long

Perhaps, It

[Scott Card]

I'll let you know about the Monsoon on Friday. I'm taking a couple Noobie groups through two canyons. Yee haw. :2thumbs: A couple of years ago, I saw the Virgin at about 9000 cfs. Now THAT was impressive. I maintain the narrows are the scarriest place in Zion during the Monsoon.

[ratagonia]

[quote=Alex]I wonder if it's just a flush flood, the spikes look like they don't last very long

Perhaps, It

[Iceaxe]

Yes, that is a flashflood on the old graph....

The first blip isn't to bad.... 150 cfs, probably not a killer... second blip is 600 cfs.... that's some major water.

:cool2:

[kaptain]

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