10pm lake now at 703 ft
although no PR’s about it,.... outflows from lake Buchanan are decreasing down to 49K from 54K. this combined with the lack of new heavy rainfall rainfall have allowed inflow from the dams to lake Travis to fall to 57K from 67K earlier in the day
This is slowing the rise of the lake the past few hours slightly ..with outlaw still study around 26K
but still a a pace of a foot every 9 hours. therefore the lake should be around 704 ft or so at 7am
light to moderate rain has dumped about a quarter inch of rain so far over the western portion of the basin this evening
although short term models are not showing it..the NWS still expects heavy rain to increase over night into Friday
a wildcard is also how much rain falls downstream in the skinny (width wise ) basin blow Austin.. heavy rain would cause more inflow on the lower Clorado river complicating any change in releases from Travis
update on buchanan. they closed two of the gates
Oct 18 2018 10:11PM At Buchanan Dam, inflows are being passed with six floodgates open.