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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.
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Q: What did c6gunner say when he found some earth in his rice?
A: It's pliau terra!
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
These events are occurring because global warming and increased human development press on the environment at the same time. Both pressures are at fault, and have a common cause as both are driven by faster development than is supportable in the ecosystem.
Higher temperatures sooner in the year causing earlier melting.
In Colorado we've had record low temperatures for February.
A trend which carried on in March
Where do you think much of the snowpack is, hmm...
Maybe flooding is due to more moisture?? Like, say from a rare event that dropped a lot more moisture across a wide region than normal??
Nah, can't be! Has to be the mythical Spaghetti Monster vibrating the atmosphere to shake out all the water!
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
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.
Step 1: "When was the last time this place flooded?"
Step 2: "Oh, it has flooded before? Thanks. I'm not interested in the property."
Every year you put off implementing things to reduce climate change, the costs multiply many fold.
What were once once a century storms and floods are now every 2-3 years.
What were once massive inundations and beetle infestation wildfires are now commonplace.
Even zoning codes have to change, to allow for redesign of buildings to survive such events every year or two, which increases building costs on average 50 percent and requires redesign of existing towns and buildings.
Energy goes in.
It comes out somewhere. It's like putting a bucket of bees inside. We can't tell you where the bees will sting or when, but we know there are going to be a lot of stings and consequences.
Oh, and stop building on flood plains and lowlands and using levees. We're beyond that now. You waited too long.
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when did Noah build the ark? before the rain? i feel bad for the flooding areas, but hey, i have seen realtors sell a ton of things in a flood plain knowing better than to do that.. insurance companies just jack the rates up, and of course our government just bails our the insurance companies over and over again using taxpayer backed funds for stupid development and redevelopment on the coast and in under water table and levy housing that should have never existed after the first major catastrophe and flood... should have been made and remained a soccer field park or something like that forever...
Remember the sleestax in Land of the Lost? We use glowing rocks to compute.
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Star Wars collectables nationwide are saying 'Oh no! Oh no!' in their basement display cases as owners ignore them and continue to frequent Marvel movies.
LOS ANGELES — With California entering its fifth year of a statewide drought, Gov. Jerry Brown moved on Monday to impose permanent water conservation measures and called on water suppliers to prepare for a future made drier by climate change.
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/0...
Oh well.
https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu...
I lived near the Missouri river in mid Missouri, from birth to 20. When you travel around the capital area of Jefferson City, you see "the river bluffs". The Missouri river, as most rivers, have been SQUEEZED and SQUEEZED over the centuries, to claim the rich soil used to grow crops. When you have a major event, the river wants to go where it was, not where man "thinks" it should be.
Slashdot *used* to have intelligent people posting, a dozen and more years ago. Now, you have to dig through the trolls and the 16 yr old idiots.
Haven't seen the headlines telling you all that the price of food, later this year, will go *way* up: bread, tortillas, meat (what do you think they feed cattle, pigs and chickens?).
Wonder if it'll result in food riots in the countries the US exports to....
Sooo they are going to ignore the dam break that was from bad construction that caused Iowa's flooding?? Am I also supposed to ignore all the early thaws or quick thaws of my childhood in the 70's?? If you are going to tell me some bullshit at least have it account for things that happened in the past and when facts come out about failed dams that the US Army Corp. built. That way you don't look as full of shit as you do now.