Measuring a spring magnitude

[phillip1]

if we were diving this spring and it were to rain really hard in the area would the flow all of a sudden increase or would it take a few hours? I am assuming/hoping it would take a while for the rain to seep through the rock and increase the flow.

[rchrds]

Impossible to know without watching it. Some places flood slowly, and you can feel the flow increase (had one do that to me, vis decreased rapidly and flow picked up- in a 45 minute dive the flow went from peacock to Ginnie at the eye.) Some pulse very rapidly once they hit a certain stage, and the result is a wave- It's like turning a corner- no flow to huge flow in seconds. Vis goes to zero with it. I've seen it happen on the surface, thankfully minutes before I got in the water. If you keep your dive short, it is unlikely (probably?) to suffer a flood event that you couldn't see coming watching the clouds and rain.

[phillip1]

Impossible to know without watching it. Some places flood slowly, and you can feel the flow increase (had one do that to me, vis decreased rapidly and flow picked up- in a 45 minute dive the flow went from peacock to Ginnie at the eye.) Some pulse very rapidly once they hit a certain stage, and the result is a wave- It's like turning a corner- no flow to huge flow in seconds. Vis goes to zero with it. I've seen it happen on the surface, thankfully minutes before I got in the water. If you keep your dive short, it is unlikely (probably?) to suffer a flood event that you couldn't see coming watching the clouds and rain.

wow that's a very reassuring thought an underground wave of flow that sucks you into the cave..lol This area is extremely hard to predict in terms of thunderstorms, it is always kind of cloudy up high and it always looks like it is going to rain.

[Neptuno]

and we did see it with high flow, and I think coming out in that small hole full of sharp rocks and mussels with that kind of speed is not cool ~, I can only hope no big rain going on around while we are there... I will let your female side to decide when to dive

[phillip1]

If we get caught in there with the flow we saw that time we are in major trouble and will get very seriously cut up on the way out for sure.