{"id":1124,"date":"2023-08-17T17:47:05","date_gmt":"2023-08-17T17:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwcb.ca\/noticeboard\/?p=1124"},"modified":"2023-08-17T17:48:11","modified_gmt":"2023-08-17T17:48:11","slug":"2023-08-17-level-forecast-and-drought-conditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lwcb.ca\/noticeboard\/2023\/08\/17\/2023-08-17-level-forecast-and-drought-conditions\/","title":{"rendered":"2023.08.17 Level Forecast and Drought Conditions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Drought conditions persist and worsen across the Winnipeg River drainage basin.  The North American Drought Monitor (map for July below) has now categorized the whole basin as being in a moderate drought and the upper English River basin in a severe drought.  As such, the LWCB continues to try to maintain storage on the lakes and as much flow as possible in the rivers with the possibility of drought conditions extending into the fall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The current level of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/lwcb.ca\/pdf\/LakeoftheWoods.pdf\">Lake of the Woods<\/a>\u00a0is 322.75 m (1058.9 ft), a 15<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0percentile level for this time of year. The average lake level declined by 3 cm (1 in) over the past week and is expected to decline by another 3 cm (1 in) over the next week. Lake of the Woods authorized outflow is 200 m<sup>3<\/sup>\/s with no changes scheduled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The current level of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/lwcb.ca\/pdf\/LacSeul.pdf\">Lac Seul<\/a>\u00a0is 356.08 m (1168.2 ft), a 15<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0percentile level for this time of year. The lake level remained stable over the past week and is expected to change little over the next week. Lac Seul authorized outflow is 100 m<sup>3<\/sup>\/s with no changes scheduled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"791\" src=\"https:\/\/lwcb.ca\/noticeboard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-1024x791.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1125\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lwcb.ca\/noticeboard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-1024x791.png 1024w, https:\/\/lwcb.ca\/noticeboard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-300x232.png 300w, https:\/\/lwcb.ca\/noticeboard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-768x593.png 768w, https:\/\/lwcb.ca\/noticeboard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image.png 1056w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drought conditions persist and worsen across the Winnipeg River drainage basin. The North American Drought Monitor (map for July below) has now categorized the whole basin as being in a moderate drought and the upper English River basin in a severe drought. As such, the LWCB continues to try to maintain storage on the lakes&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/lwcb.ca\/noticeboard\/2023\/08\/17\/2023-08-17-level-forecast-and-drought-conditions\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">2023.08.17 Level Forecast and Drought Conditions<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lwcb.ca\/noticeboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lwcb.ca\/noticeboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lwcb.ca\/noticeboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lwcb.ca\/noticeboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lwcb.ca\/noticeboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1124"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lwcb.ca\/noticeboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1127,"href":"https:\/\/lwcb.ca\/noticeboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124\/revisions\/1127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lwcb.ca\/noticeboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lwcb.ca\/noticeboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lwcb.ca\/noticeboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}