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July 2008
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Matt Chambers: June 2008 ArchivesNow that the Mississippi River is cresting (or nearly cresting) in our area, our focus in the 4Warn Storm Center is changing. You'll hear less and less now about crest times and heights, and more about the duration of the crest. Unfortunately, in a major river flooding event like this one, water levels don't typically drop quickly after cresting. Many locations up and down the Mississippi River will spend two or thre... ***UPDATED THURSDAY, JUNE 19*** Can that possibly be? Indeed, the latest river level forecasts indicate that this episode of flooding on the Mississippi River may actually approach (if not surpass) those record levels set in the Great Flood of 1993, at least upstream from Grafton (north of St. Louis). To keep this as simple as possible, let's start north and work our way south. Louisiana... Is there a state in the Union that isn't dealing with some sort of wild weather? The national news has certainly been painting an ugly picture recently -- wild fires in the west, extreme heat in the east, and of course, strong thunderstorms and flooding in the nation's midsection. This river flooding issue is a complicated one, mainly because different local rivers will be impacted in dramatically different ways. For example, while m... |
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