2026-02-17T20:00:00-07:00
...CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS LIKELY TO CONTINUE THROUGH AT LEAST TUESDAY... ...EXTREMELY CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS REMAIN POSSIBLE TUESDAY... .Recent dry conditions combining with above normal temperatures and periods of gusty winds will bring potentially critical fire weather conditions again on Monday. Stronger, more widespread westerly winds are expected to develop Tuesday, possibly producing extremely critical fire weather conditions with wind gusts as high as 65 mph across the plains. ...FIRE WEATHER WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM TUESDAY MORNING THROUGH TUESDAY EVENING FOR WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR THE SOUTHERN FRONT RANGE FOOTHILLS, PALMER DIVIDE, AND EASTERN PLAINS SOUTH OF I-76... * AFFECTED AREA...Fire Weather Zones 216, 241, 245, 246, 247 and 249. * TIMING...For the Red Flag Warning, from 11 AM to 6 PM MST Monday. For the Fire Weather Watch, from Tuesday morning through Tuesday evening. * WINDS...South winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph on Monday. West winds 30 to 40 mph with gusts up to 60 mph on Tuesday. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...As low as 11 percent. * IMPACTS...Conditions will be favorable for rapid fire spread. Avoid outdoor burning and any activity that may produce a spark and start a wildfire.
Summary
Total streamflow across the
Hudson River
was last observed at
5,886
cfs, and is expected to yield approximately
11,675
acre-ft of water today; about 28%
of normal.
River levels are low and may signify a drought.
Average streamflow for this time of year is
21,225 cfs,
with recent peaks last observed
on
2023-12-19 when daily discharge volume was observed at
330,110 cfs.
Maximum discharge along the river is currently at the
Hudson River At Lock 1 Near Waterford Ny
reporting a streamflow rate of 4,430 cfs.
However, the streamgauge with the highest stage along the river is the
Hudson River At Fort Edward Ny
with a gauge stage of 20.87 ft.
This river is monitored from 7 different streamgauging stations along the Hudson River, the highest being situated at an altitude of 1,565 ft, the
Hudson River Near Newcomb Ny.
15-Day Weather Outlook
River Details
| Last Updated | 2026-02-16 |
| Discharge Volume | 11,675 ACRE-FT |
| Streamflow |
5,885.9 cfs
-315.1 cfs (-5.08%) |
| Percent of Normal | 27.73% |
| Maximum |
330,110.0 cfs
2023-12-19 |
| Seasonal Avg | 21,225 cfs |
River Streamflow Levels
| Streamgauge | Streamflow | Gauge Stage | 24hr Change (%) | % Normal | Minimum (cfs) | Maximum (cfs) | Air Temp | Elevation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Hudson River Near Newcomb Ny
USGS 01312000 |
96 cfs | 1.57 ft | -5.05 | |||||
|
Hudson River At North Creek Ny
USGS 01315500 |
697 cfs | 3.99 ft | 1.16 | |||||
|
Hudson River At Hadley Ny
USGS 01318500 |
1100 cfs | 2.49 ft | 4.76 | |||||
|
Hudson River At Fort Edward Ny
USGS 01327750 |
2120 cfs | 20.87 ft | -0.93 | |||||
|
Hudson R Above Lock 1 Nr Waterford Ny
USGS 01335754 |
3670 cfs | 19.39 ft | -7.32 | |||||
|
Hudson River At Lock 1 Near Waterford Ny
USGS 01335755 |
4430 cfs | 20.58 ft | 1.84 | |||||
|
Hudson River At Green Island Ny
USGS 01358000 |
3890 cfs | 16.4 ft | 170.14 |
Seasonal Discharge Comparison
Maximum Streamflow Discharge
Streamflow Elevation Profile
The Hudson River is a 315-mile (507 km) river that flows from north to south primarily through eastern New York in the United States. The river originates in the Adirondack Mountains of Upstate New York, flows southward through the Hudson Valley to the Upper New York Bay between New York City and Jersey City. It eventually drains into the Atlantic Ocean at New York Harbor. The river serves as a political boundary between the states of New Jersey and New York at its southern end. Further north, it marks local boundaries between several New York counties. The lower half of the river is a tidal estuary, deeper than the body of water into which it flows, occupying the Hudson Fjord, an inlet which formed during the most recent period of North American glaciation, estimated at 26,000 to 13,300 years ago. Tidal waters influence the Hudson's flow from as far north as the city of Troy.
The river is named after Henry Hudson, an Englishman sailing for the Dutch East India Company, who explored it in 1609, and after whom Hudson Bay in Canada is also named. It had previously been observed by Italian explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano sailing for King Francis I of France in 1524, as he became the first European known to have entered the Upper New York Bay, but he considered the river to be an estuary. The Dutch called the river the North River – with the Delaware River called the South River – and it formed the spine of the Dutch colony of New Netherland. Settlements of the colony clustered around the Hudson, and its strategic importance as the gateway to the American interior led to years of competition between the English and the Dutch over control of the river and colony.
During the eighteenth century, the river valley and its inhabitants were the subject and inspiration of Washington Irving, the first internationally acclaimed American author. In the nineteenth century, the area inspired the Hudson River School of landscape painting, an American pastoral style, as well as the concepts of environmentalism and wilderness. The Hudson was also the eastern outlet for the Erie Canal, which, when completed in 1825, became an important transportation artery for the early-19th-century United States.