Big Buoy

RIVERS ARE HERE Every operational USGS river gauge is now in Big Buoy, free, for every user. Live stage, flow and water temperature for rivers across the country. • Nearby Rivers: a new tab on Spots & Buoys showing the closest gauges and what they're reading right now • Save any gauge to your spots, alongside your saltwater spots • Tap a gauge for stage, flow, water temp, recent trend and a 7-day chart • NWS flood categories, where the National Weather Service publishes them • Turbidity and dissolved oxygen on the gauges that report them • Gauges are searchable, same as buoys Rivers are worth watching even if you only fish salt. A big rain event pushes dirty freshwater downstream, and this is the easiest way to see what's coming. SHARPER WIND The wind map now runs at 0.25° and hourly, four times finer than the 1° field it replaces. Same map, a lot more detail close to shore. FIXES • Tidal river gauges no longer read as negative numbers. Flow reverses on an incoming tide, and it now shows as "399 cfs upstream" instead of "-399 cfs" • The Confirmation Email and Cancel buttons weren't responding • A saved coordinate link wouldn't open from a cold start • River gauge names now read the way you'd say them, not in USGS shorthand • Map data sources moved to an info button beside the map controls