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Historic, Widespread Flooding Will Continue Through May, NOAA Says (cnn.com)
The U.S. is likely to see "historic, widespread flooding" through May, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association's spring outlook. From a report: "This is shaping up to be a potentially unprecedented flood season, with more than 200 million people at risk for flooding in their communities," said Ed Clark, director of NOAA's National Water Center in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. NOAA's outlook calls for nearly two-thirds of the lower 48 states to face an elevated risk of flooding through May, with the potential for major to moderate flooding in 25 states across the Great Plains, Midwest and down through the Mississippi River valley.
"The flooding this year could be worse than what we have seen in previous years ... even worse than the historic floods we saw in 1993 and 2011," said Mary Erickson, deputy director of the National Weather Service. The warning comes amid record flooding triggered by a sudden warm-up and heavy rains earlier this month brought on by the "bomb cyclone." Combined with rapid snowmelt, the factors in recent weeks have put many places in the Great Plains and Midwest underwater.
"The flooding this year could be worse than what we have seen in previous years ... even worse than the historic floods we saw in 1993 and 2011," said Mary Erickson, deputy director of the National Weather Service. The warning comes amid record flooding triggered by a sudden warm-up and heavy rains earlier this month brought on by the "bomb cyclone." Combined with rapid snowmelt, the factors in recent weeks have put many places in the Great Plains and Midwest underwater.
Oh that's right. We're all gonna die anyway. :D
Climate chaos is hitting GOP strongholds hard. But don't worry, its a hoax. Your cattle didn't drown. You never had any cattle. Your bridges aren't washed out and your roads aren't covered in 5 feet of mud, there were never any bridge, there never were any roads. Its all lies from libtards. YOU aren't even real, you are just a hoax to trick Real Americans into paying for scheming scientists to live lavish lifestyles.
So what are you going to do about it? How are you making a difference?
How about better infrastructure policy, for starters? (Policy that would take into account realistic forecasts of climate evolution, in particular.)
The many levee breaches make me think that we are not focussing on raising the right walls, at this point in time.
the only "better infrastructure" this country will see for decades is improvements to Trump properties
What about the people who claim climate change is not a thing?
Or, hang on, yes the climate is changing, but not because of human activity.
Why would someone spend $400 million trying to influence voters if they didn't expect a return?
But OK, "Big Science" is the problem, sure.
Two days, again according to your own article.
It carried on a lot longer than that, according to LIVING HERE.
It's only a few days after the bomb cyclone we've started actually approaching average temperatures.
So how do we have more melting that normal with below average tertmpetures?
Again, you are totally ignoring the fact that the bomb cyclone dropped a lot more moisture across the region than it would normally see... there is a huge amount of snowpack left because it's also way above average. so right there cleanly disproves the theory that the floods are from record melting.. if anything we have had below average melting, against because of the temperatures.
You can dance around it all you like, but the fact is you and your scientifically, data starved ignorant friends are simply wrong about what is happening now, and you base your forecasts on this fundamentally mistaken view of the world... sad.
Funny how those rare events keep increasing in frequency.
You misspelled decreasing. Just like a climate alarmists to confuse weather for climate.
Pretty telling that I am the only one providing real data while you try to spread fear and panic by totally ignoring what the weather is actually doing.
I'll let you have the last response, since at this point everyone is onto your game of deception... everyone except for you it would seem.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Except last year when much of the west was suffering an extremely dry winter. This very same excuse was used. The Jetstream is flowing further north, allowing strong High pressures to set up off the west coast pushing all the moisture up through Canada to then drop down into the great plains. This is the new norm because of climate change, the warmer planet has changed the flow of the jet stream.
Now this year it's the warmer climate has changed the flow of the Jetstream to aim right at the west coast pushing one or more storm systems through per week every week of this winter and the west has enjoyed a very wet (but not record breaking wet) winter, as has the Midwest.
So which is it? Is dryer the new norm or is it wetter. Because we've been given the same excuses the last two years for totally different results.
Or is it really just normal variations in the weather.
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