River guage app

[Al Agnew]

5 hours ago, Flysmallie said:

The USGS site is a wealth of information. I'm glad I had a good understanding of it before these apps were available. And I will acknowledge and thank Al for helping me to understand what I was reading from these gauges. I used to always just look at gauge height and that seemed to work. But as Al has suggested in the past I started paying more attention to CFS and it has been very beneficial to understanding the waters I float a lot and what to expect when I get there. Thank you for that Al. Now when my wife says lets go float I can open my app, check the 3 gauges that are close, and have a plan of where we are going in about 10 seconds. 

Glad I was a help.  One of the beauties of the USGS gages (if you know where to look and what you're looking for) is that they can tell you a huge amount of useful information about streams you may know nothing about.  If you're familiar with the river and the particular gages (or the apps) that cover it, then pretty much all you usually need to know is either level in feet or flow in cfs, the median flow, and what the river has done in the last few days.  But if it's a completely unfamiliar river, or one that you've only been on a couple of times, then digging deeper into the USGS gages will really give you a lot.

 

[grizwilson]

16 hours ago, Flysmallie said:

The USGS site is a wealth of information. I'm glad I had a good understanding of it before these apps were available. And I will acknowledge and thank Al for helping me to understand what I was reading from these gauges. I used to always just look at gauge height and that seemed to work. But as Al has suggested in the past I started paying more attention to CFS and it has been very beneficial to understanding the waters I float a lot and what to expect when I get there. Thank you for that Al. Now when my wife says lets go float I can open my app, check the 3 gauges that are close, and have a plan of where we are going in about 10 seconds. 

Yeah what Ronnie said, agree Thank you Al

[Kelroy]

For the curious... ~K

 

Why does the USGS use the spelling "gage" instead of "gauge"?

 

[fishinwrench]

4 hours ago, Kelroy said:

For the curious... ~K

 

Why does the USGS use the spelling "gage" instead of "gauge"?

 

Anytime you misspell something and get called out on it......just claim that it's part of your rich history to spell it like that.     

Make the accuser feel ignorant. 👍

 

[moguy1973]

I mean, gage is pronounced exactly like it's spelled.  Gauge, well, I don't know why there's a U in there.  Phonetically that is pronounced like gouge or gawj.  The English language is messed up and one of the hardest languages in the world to learn how to use properly. 

[bfishn]

3 hours ago, fishinwrench said:

Anytime you misspell something...

 

Not a misspelling according to Webster, just a "less common" spelling;

gage

 noun (1)

 

less common spelling of GAUGE

1a: a measurement (as of linear dimension) according to some standard or system: such as

(1): the distance between the rails of a railroad

(2): the size of a shotgun barrel's inner diameter nominally expressed as the number of lead balls each just fitting that diameter required to make a pound a 12-gauge shotgun

(3): the thickness of a thin material (such as sheet metal or plastic film)

(4): the diameter of a slender object (such as wire or a hypodermic needle)

(5): the fineness of a knitted fabric expressed by the number of loops per unit width

b: DIMENSIONS, SIZE

c: MEASURE sense 1surveys are a gauge of public sentiment

2: an instrument for or a means of measuring or testing: such as

a: an instrument for measuring a dimension or for testing mechanical accuracy

b: an instrument with a graduated (see GRADUATE entry 1 sense transitive 2a) scale or dial for measuring or indicating quantity

3: relative position of a ship with reference to another ship and the wind

4: a function introduced into a field equation to produce a convenient form of the equation but having no observable physical consequences

[fishinwrench]

Where I come from Gage is a boys name, born late 80's to early 90's.

And Gauge is an instrument.

 

Having a fuel pressure gauge, fuel level gauge, temperature guage....but a water level gage.....is just freakin' stupid.   They are all GAUGES !  

The only reason the English language is so confusing is because PC PEOPLE allow it to be.  

[Al Agnew]

14 hours ago, Kelroy said:

For the curious... ~K

 

Why does the USGS use the spelling "gage" instead of "gauge"?

 

It's simply amazing when you think about it how much information is available at our fingertips.  I wasn't curious enough to look it up for myself, but I should have known the explanation could be found.  Thanks!

[45acp]

15 hours ago, fishinwrench said:

The only reason the English language is so confusing is because PC PEOPLE allow it to be.  

Mostly it's confusing because of the French.  They put letters where letters are not needed.