Updates
March 22, 2013: The Minot Daily News is reporting that the Souris River is also likely to flood this spring. Remember: the river is fed by snow pack in Canada. No link: the story is easily found.
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The AP is reporting:The latest weather service flood outlook for Fargo and neighboring Moorhead, Minn., includes a 50 percent chance that the river would top 38 feet later this spring, which would surpass the fifth-highest crest of 37.34 feet in 1969. There's a 10 percent chance of an all-time record.
"It's March madness again," said Fargo City Administrator Pat Zavoral. He noted that it would be the fourth major flood in five years, including a record crest of 41 feet in 2009.Chances of a top-five flood increased with near-record cold temperatures that have delayed the snow melt, which isn't expected to begin until the first week of April, NWS officials said. The chances of major rainfall totals also increase around that time.
And that's what happens when you try to avert global warming: you just push winter into spring. Or perhaps summer in this case.
I can't make this stuff up. The comments may be a bit over the top, as they say, but just "a bit," but the AP stands by its story: "... near-record cold temperatures that have
delayed the snow melt, which isn't expected to begin until the first week
of April."
