THE RHINE AT KAUB — 13.0 CM, DOWN THREE, WITH THE LOW-WATER PERIOD STILL DEEPENING

On the board · September 22, 2026 →

ACTIVE · September 22, 2026 · NO. 0922

THE WATER

13.0 cm at 09:00 local, down 3 cm from Monday's 16.0 and about 8 cm from Sunday's 21.0. The direction is the point: the low-water period is deepening rather than bottoming, which keeps tightening loadable draft on the corridor day by day. One directly read gauge value — the most solid number in today's European row, and the one that changes a barge's economics before it changes anyone's weather.

THE RECORD

23 turning points on record since Aug 7 — the 8 most recent shown.

Sep 22building → active

Sep 21active → building

Sep 19▽ slipped down the board

Sep 18↑ moved up the board

Sep 17▽ slipped down the board

Sep 16▽ slipped down the board

Sep 15▽ eased

Sep 13↑ moved up the board

WHO IT TOUCHES

Maritime & portstwo fishing coasts told to stay ashore, a major hurricane's surf, and a river gauge that keeps taking draft away

Supply chainsan east-coast Indian landfall window, a deepening low-water river, and a Brazilian corridor coming back up

WHAT THEY'RE SAYING

searched 34 vetted voices and the open field — nothing said about this system cleared the screen.