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Lake Travis, Hour by Hour

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A live Lake Travis water-level forecast covering the next 36 hours hourly and the following 10 days.

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This is a remarkably focused local instrument: it combines NOAA inflows, rainfall, evaporation, and Mansfield Dam operations, then explains why the lake is rising or falling. It also adds boat-ramp information, recent level history, and a Friday-morning ski forecast—turning a single lake gauge into a small field guide for lake users.

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