BOISE, Idaho — Don't be fooled by the hot weather currently baking the Treasure Valley; The Boise River is running high and remains dangerously cold.

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Although temperatures are forecasted to sit in the mid to high 90s until Wednesday, water temperatures in the Boise River are currently hovering around 55° Fahrenheit. The river is also moving fast, with the current flows measuring at approximately 1,220 cubic feet per second (CFS).

USGS

After dropping the flows down to the 700-800 cfs range for the latter half of May, water managers with the Bureau of Reclamation and US Army Corps of Engineers bumped the water levels back up to 1,290 cfs on June 3rd. All in all, flows have leveled out since then, dropping just

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