Danube River Levels

[doreen22]

We leave on our Danube River cruise in 3.5 weeks so I have been looking at the river levels on 2 sites (which I learned about on this forum).

 

One of the sites shows all green circles, which is good:). But the other site has a fair number of orange ones which say "niedrig" which I think means low?

 

Does this mean low water levels? Or low clearance? Hopefully it is nothing I should be worrying about:D.

[steamboats]

doreen22,

 

Which sites are you exactly talking about? I can only tell you what "niedrig" means on that specific site when I know which one you are talking about. "Niedrig" is "low".

 

This website

 

http://www.hnd.bayern.de/

 

is showing the green dots. But that does only indicate that there is no flood stage. It doesn´t say anything about low water.

 

This website

 

http://www.nid.bayern.de/

 

is showing the actual water level. Here you can see yellow dots saying "niedrig". That does only indicate that the water level is below normal. When you click on the dot you get a graph showing the water level over a period of app. 2 months. Ships might get into problems when it´s saying "sehr niedrig".

 

steamboats

[doreen22]

Thanks Steamboat,

 

It was those sites I was looking at ( I think I may have gotten them from one of your previous posts) ....we were just surprised that the river is low at this time of year. Guess we need some snow to melt, not too much though:)

Hopefully we don't see any "sehr niedrig" in the next few weeks.

 

thanks

Susan

[steamboats]

Susan,

 

We still have lots of snow but we didn´t have much rain. Therefore no spring flood but low river levels.

 

steamboats

[GreekBasil]

Cant wait to see you posts and opinion on this upcoming trip! Have a great cruise!

[doreen22]

Looks like the river levels are going green:).

 

 

http://www.nid.bayern.de/

[SBDriver]

Glad you can understand that! I can't figure it out. :confused:

[scranger]

Green is good, i.e., no low water.

[SBDriver]

That part I understand!! lol. If I read the map correctly, it goes from Passau to Regensburg on the Danube. There are 4 dots. Two yellow, two green. Maybe I'm missing something (totally possible!! lol!) :D Is there a map from Budapest to Passau? Help my feeble old eyes, please!

[doreen22]

Your guess is as good as mine Wendy:D...I was just going with the "green is good".

[SBDriver]

Well, green is the predominant colour on the map as a whole, so we'll take that as a good sign!!

 

Wendy

[scranger]

The map is a service of the Bavarian State Dept. of Environment, and is thus limited to the Bavarian section of the river.

[SBDriver]

The map is a service of the Bavarian State Dept. of Environment, and is thus limited to the Bavarian section of the river.

 

 

Thanks scranger.

[stretchcruz]

Thanks, I bookmarked the sights and my brother's wife is German (from Bavaria), so she'll be able to help me out for our cruise in Oct!!

 

Dobie

[steamboats]

SBDriver,

 

Here you go, not maps but at least websites:

 

http://www.doris.bmvit.gv.at/en/water_levels_low_sections/water_levels/ Austria

http://www.povodia.sk/dunaj/en/index.htm Slovakia (map)

http://www.hydroinfo.hu/Html/hidinfo/duna.html Hungary (includes whole Danube river, but in Hungarian only)

http://www.elwis.de/gewaesserkunde/Wasserstaende/Wasserstaende_start.php.html (all of Germany, not only Danube river, German only)

http://www.elwis.de/gewaesserkunde/Wasserstaende/Karte/index.html Germany (map version)

 

steamboats

 

PS: We nearly had no rain in April but we do have now. So rivers are filling up again after being low.

[SBDriver]

Thanks steamboats.

 

Glad to hear the rivers are filling up. Hopefully they get to a healthy level, then the sun shines for our cruise!! :p

 

Less than a week to go now!!