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Flooding Likely This Spring
(IRN)-The National Weather Service is predicting a high likelihood of significant flooding along much of the upper Mississippi River this spring.

The St. Louis office of the Weather Service released its Spring Flood Outlook, and the concerns are ominous. The Weather Service cites high levels of stream flow, soil moisture and snowpack in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa and northern Missouri.

Hydrologist Mark Fuchs says this week's snow storm didn't help. He says towns along the Mississippi from Minnesota south to the St. Louis area could see moderate to major flooding in the spring. The “wild card,” Fuchs says, is how much rain we'll see in February and March. He says so far, it looks like February could be wet and that could mean flooding equal to or worse than the floods in 2008 that caused levies to fail up and down the Mississippi.

There is some good news, flooding is considered less likely on the Mississippi south of St. Louis because parts of southern Illinois and southeast Missouri had below average rainfall through 2010. That could change though, if significant rainfall is seen this spring.

(Source: Illinois Radio Network)
02 04 11 by Newsroom
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