Sims Bayou at Houston water level

What this means

Sims Bayou at Houston is running far below normal at 1.00 ft.

The median for mid-October is 5.64 ft, based on 29 years of readings, so the water level is 4.64 ft below typical. It is 25.20 ft below the flood stage of 26.20 ft. On the same day last year the reading was 1.79 ft, a difference of −0.79 ft.

It has risen 0.37 ft over the past 24 hours. In the last month it has stayed between −0.53 ft and 2.86 ft.

Compared with 29 years of daily readings for this time of year. How to read levels

Key numbers

Median for this date

5.64 ft4.64 ft below the median for this date

Normal for this date

1.95 ft – 8.16 ft8 years in 10 fall in this range (29 years of records)

Same day last year

1.79 ft−0.79 ft

Lowest and highest in 30 days

−0.53 ft – 2.86 ft

Lowest and highest in 12 months

−0.83 ft – 4.16 ft

Highest on record

30.44 ftOctober 5, 1981