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FRESHWATER TEMPERATURES

The U.S. Geological Survey provides real time data temperatures, water quality, and stream flow for every major water basin, lake and reservoir in the U.S. This helps to identify safe and suitable conditions for your fishing outing. Enter the state in upper right search box. In the pre defined display menu choose water quality data. Pick a grouping, (River basin, county, hydrological unit. ). After retreiving the fresh water temperature data you will want to enter the degree celsius into the c field of the following converion chart. Put the value in the celcius field and click on the farenheit box for results.

Use water quality table data and pick your state. You will most likely need to convert your celcius temperature results to farenheit. The script is below

Simple Celcius to Farenheit script

• click outside the text box, or
• press the tab key

F: C:

 

Here is the simple form code for copying to the body tags of web site.

[code begins]F:<input type="text" name="F" value="32"

onChange="eval('C.value = ' + this.form.C_expr.value)" size="20">
<input type="hidden" name="F_expr" value="(212-32)/100 * C.value + 32 ">
C:</span>
<input type="text" name="C" value="0"

onChange="eval('F.value = ' + this.form.F_expr.value)" size="20">

<input type="hidden" name="C_expr" value="100/(212-32) * (F.value - 32 )">
<input type=reset name=reset value=reset>
</body>[code ends]