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Streamgage percentiles as birthday candles, showing the rates of flow in each gage - Image 4.

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🎉🎉 Happy 100th Birthday to these USGS streamgages! 🎉🎉 

To celebrate, we thought we would shine some light 🎂 on 100 years of data. Each candle shows the distribution of streamflow data over the past 100 years for each gage. 

  • North Fork Shenandoah River near Strasburg, VA - Monitoring location - 01634000
  • Shoal Creek at Iron City, TN - Monitoring location - Monitoring location - 03588500
  • Wynoochee River above Save Creek near Aberdeen, WA - Monitoring location - 12036000
  • Broad River near Boiling Springs, NC - Monitoring location - 02151500
  • James River at Lick Run, VA - Monitoring location - 02016500
  • James River at Bent Creek, VA - Monitoring location - 02026000
  • Altamaha River at Doctortown, GA - Monitoring location - 02226000

Centennial Streamgages

Distributions – Stripes #30DayChartChallenge 

Sources/Usage

Public Domain.

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