03/01/2011. USL Nowcast was added to cron (24hr timespan, runs once a day). 07/05/2011. USL Nowcast was changed to a 3hr timespan & to run 8 times a day. 09/21/2011. USL Forecast was added to cron (48hr timespan, runs 8 times a day). 10/14/2011. USL Nowcast & Forecast were migrated to their current location. 10/27/2011. HTML pages for http://www.glerl.noaa.gov/res/usl/ were adapted from www.glerl.noaa.gov/res/hecwfs2/. 11/04/2011. Web page made available online for those with NOAA login at www.glerl.noaa.gov/inhouse/res/usl/. 11/10/2011. The data being gathered from the Ogdensburg gauge is now at 6 minute intervals instead of 1 hour intervals. 11/15/2011. Web page made publicly available at www.glerl.noaa.gov/res/usl/. 11/16/2011. Recent USL Nowcast & Forecast output files were made available at www.glerl.noaa.gov/ftp/EMF/usl/ (in NetCDF format). 01/18/2012. Longterm Outflows plot altered to display last 365 days worth of data in lieu of displaying data from only the current year. 02/24/2012. The data being gathered from the ogdensburg gauge is back to being gathered at 1 hour intervals again due to unreliability of 6 minute data's source. 09/18/2012. All IDL scripts used in the execution process of this model have been redone in Python. 10/03/2012. Animations have been changed from FLC movies to javascript.