doreen22 Posted April 14, 2010 #1 Share Posted April 14, 2010 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare steamboats Posted April 14, 2010 #2 Share Posted April 14, 2010 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doreen22 Posted April 15, 2010 Author #3 Share Posted April 15, 2010 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare steamboats Posted April 15, 2010 #4 Share Posted April 15, 2010 Susan, We still have lots of snow but we didn´t have much rain. Therefore no spring flood but low river levels. steamboats Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreekBasil Posted April 27, 2010 #5 Share Posted April 27, 2010 Cant wait to see you posts and opinion on this upcoming trip! Have a great cruise! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doreen22 Posted May 5, 2010 Author #6 Share Posted May 5, 2010 Looks like the river levels are going green:). http://www.nid.bayern.de/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SBDriver Posted May 5, 2010 #7 Share Posted May 5, 2010 Glad you can understand that! I can't figure it out. :confused: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scranger Posted May 5, 2010 #8 Share Posted May 5, 2010 Green is good, i.e., no low water. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SBDriver Posted May 5, 2010 #9 Share Posted May 5, 2010 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! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doreen22 Posted May 5, 2010 Author #10 Share Posted May 5, 2010 Your guess is as good as mine Wendy:D...I was just going with the "green is good". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SBDriver Posted May 5, 2010 #11 Share Posted May 5, 2010 Well, green is the predominant colour on the map as a whole, so we'll take that as a good sign!! Wendy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scranger Posted May 5, 2010 #12 Share Posted May 5, 2010 The map is a service of the Bavarian State Dept. of Environment, and is thus limited to the Bavarian section of the river. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SBDriver Posted May 6, 2010 #13 Share Posted May 6, 2010 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stretchcruz Posted May 6, 2010 #14 Share Posted May 6, 2010 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare steamboats Posted May 6, 2010 #15 Share Posted May 6, 2010 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SBDriver Posted May 6, 2010 #16 Share Posted May 6, 2010 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!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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