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HYDROLOGICAL STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA
104 PM EST THU DEC 18 2025
..RIVER ICE STATEMENT
..WEST BRANCH RIVER AND TRIBUTARIES
DATE OF OBSERVATION: 12/15/2025 13:08:24 ID: 47
LOCATION: WEST BRANCH SUSQUEHANNA RIVER, 2 MILE
UPSTREAM FROM CONFLUENCE WITH NORTH BRANCH.
REPORT: THERE IS SOME BORDER ICE. THE ICE EXTENDS 150
FEET FROM THE WEST SHORE AND 20 FEET FROM THE EAST SHORE.
IN GENERAL, APPROXIMATELY 30 PERCENT OF THE CHANNEL IS OPEN.
THERE IS SOME ICE IN THE OPEN WATER. THE ICE CONSISTS OF
PIECES OF SHEET ICE. REMARKS: THERE ARE LARGE STATIONARY
SHEETS OF ICE EXTENDING FROM SHORELINES, WITH SOME OPEN AREAS.
ALL ICE IS STATIONARY. NO MOVING SHEETS OR FRAZIL PANS.
DATE OF OBSERVATION: 12/15/2025 18:16:45 ID: 71
LOCATION: WEST BRANCH SUSQUEHANNA RIVER, MILTON-WEST
MILTON BRIDGE (SR 642) SOUTH TO LEWISBURG-MONTANDON BRIDGE (SR
45).
REPORT: THERE IS SOME BORDER ICE. THE ICE EXTENDS 20
FEET FROM THE EAST SHORE AND 20 FEET FROM THE WEST SHORE. IN
GENERAL, APPROXIMATELY 20 PERCENT OF THE CHANNEL IS OPEN.
THERE IS SOME ICE IN THE OPEN WATER. THE ICE CONSISTS OF
FRAZIL PANS. REMARKS: BORDER ICE EXTENDS OUT AT LEAST 20 FEET
FROM EACH SHORE. MOST OF THE RIVER IS COVERED WITH FRAZIL
PANS WITH OPEN WATER SHOWING IN ONLY ABOUT 20% (OR LESS IN
SOME AREAS) OF THE RIVER. JUST SOUTH OF THE LEWISBURG-MONTANDON
RIVER BRIDGE THERE IS NO OPEN WATER, PANS OF ICE ARE
BEGINNING TO FORM SOLID ICE.
DATE OF OBSERVATION: 12/15/2025 09:43:51 ID: 13
LOCATION: WEST BRANCH OF THE SUSQUEHANNA RIVER AT
VETERANS BRIDGE IN LOCK HAVEN.
REPORT: THE UPSTREAM END OF THE COMPLETE ICE COVER IS
NEAR ONE MILE WEST OF VETERANS BRIDGE. THE DOWNSTREAM END
OF THE COMPLETE ICE COVER IS NEAR TO TIDLOW DAM, ONE QUARTER
MILE EAST OF BRIDGE. THE DATE OF COMPLETE ICE COVER WAS
12/12/2025.
..MAIN STEM RIVER AND TRIBUTARIES
DATE OF OBSERVATION: 12/18/2025 08:36:09 ID: 8
LOCATION: 714 RIVER ROAD, DAUPHIN, PA.
REPORT: THE UPSTREAM END OF THE COMPLETE ICE COVER IS
NEAR AS FAR AS EYE CAN SEE. THE DOWNSTREAM END OF THE
COMPLETE ICE COVER IS NEAR VERY COVERED, SOME SMALL AREAS OPEN.
THE DATE OF COMPLETE ICE COVER WAS 12/18/2025.
DATE OF OBSERVATION: 12/17/2025 15:55:50 ID: 76
LOCATION: LOWER SUSQUEHANNA RIVER FROM MARIETTA
DOWNRIVER TO SAFE HARBOR DAM.
REPORT: THE RIVER IS COVERED WITH 90+% SHEET ICE FROM
SAFE HARBOR DAM UPRIVER TO JUST BELOW COLUMBIA. IN THE
VICINITY OF COLUMBIA AND WRIGHTSVILLE, THE RIVER IS 80% COVERED
WITH SHEET ICE. FROM ROUTE 30 UPRIVER TO JUST BELOW
MARIETTA, THE RIVER IS COVERED WITH 40% SHEET ICE.
DATE OF OBSERVATION: 12/17/2025 09:00:43 ID: 20
LOCATION: COLUMBIA BOROUGH RIVER PARK/RTE.462 BRIDGE.
REPORT: IN GENERAL, APPROXIMATELY 30 PERCENT OF THE
CHANNEL IS OPEN. THERE IS OPEN WATER, BUT IT IS CLEAR OF ANY
MOVING ICE. REMARKS: ICE AND SNOW COVER EXTENDING FROM RTE.
30 BRIDGE SOUTH TO ISLANDS BELOW COLUMBIA (2 MI.?) THERE
ARE NUMEROUS AREA OF OPEN WATER OBSERVED FROM EAST SHORE.
DATE OF OBSERVATION: 12/17/2025 10:41:32 ID: 3
LOCATION: SUSQUEHANNA RIVER AT ACCOMAC, HELLAM
TOWNSHIP, YORK COUNTY, PA.
REPORT: 95% OPEN WITH BORDER ICE.
DATE OF OBSERVATION: 12/16/2025 08:46:26 ID: 1
LOCATION: SUNBURY BELOW DAM.
REPORT: THERE IS SOME BORDER ICE. THE ICE EXTENDS 20
FEET FROM THE EAST SHORE AND 30 FEET FROM THE WEST SHORE. IN
GENERAL, APPROXIMATELY 90 PERCENT OF THE CHANNEL IS OPEN.
THERE IS SOME ICE IN THE OPEN WATER. THE ICE CONSISTS OF
FRAZIL PANS. REMARKS: ABOVE THE DAM, OBSERVED SHEET ICE THAT
WAS LESS THAN 50% ACROSS.
DATE OF OBSERVATION: 12/17/2025 09:11:04 ID: 43
LOCATION: NORTH BRANCH SUSQUEHANNA AT DANVILLE.
REPORT: IN GENERAL, APPROXIMATELY 40 PERCENT OF THE
CHANNEL IS OPEN. THERE IS SOME ICE IN THE OPEN WATER. THE
ICE CONSISTS OF FRAZIL PANS. REMARKS: THERE IS SOME BORDER
ICE, BOTH SIDES. FRAZIL PANS HAVE EXPANDED IN SIZE.
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