This gauge is not sending water temperature — it has sent no water temperature for 2002 days, since 5 April 2021.
USGS still answers for it, with the last value it ever sent and nothing to say the sensor has
gone, so nothing on this page is presented as a current reading.
The figure above is modelled: this gauge's own fitted line, its intercept plus its slope against the 3-day mean air temperature over it, fitted on its own daily record,
built from 306 days of this gauge's own record. A gauge stopping does not unmake what
it recorded while it ran, and the record below is the same record the line was fitted on. Its
scatter against that record is ±2.1 °F, and it is a statement about
what this water usually does at this air temperature, not about what it is doing.
Everything below — the record, the monthly means, the thirty-day chart — is the gauge's own
history and is unaffected.
The record at this gauge
USGS returned no daily values for this gauge over the last 5 years. It may report
instantaneous values only, or may have been discontinued.
What this gauge predicts
This is one of the gauges this site fits an air-to-water model against, which is how the map
colours water that has no gauge on it. July mean 71.05 °F; the fit explains
87% of the variance with a typical error of
2.084 °F.
The water it stands in
South Fork Back Creek, classified Class II (wild) by VDWR — the nearest reach carrying that classification is 1.16 mi
from the gauge.
Snapped to NHD reach South Fork Back Creek
(10000500035266), 15.8 m away. That join is
what lets the app paint this gauge's reading onto the reach it measures.