Provides comprehensive information on the Anacostia Watershed. The Anacostia Watershed is located in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan region. The Anacostia River is one of our nation's capital's major rivers.

NCDC's Climate Monitoring Branch now produces weekly products to augment our standard monthly products.

Tracking drought blends science and art. No single definition of drought works for all circumstances, so people rely on drought indices to detect and measure droughts.

We are seeing record minimum flows at streamgages in the Shenandoah, Rappahannock, York, James, and Chowan River basins. Most of the records being broken were set during previous droughts at this time of year. While conditions statewide are not as bad as during the drought of 1930-32, more people using more water means increased demands on available supplies.

Virginia daily streamflow and other hydrologic information