midwest flooding

States that border the Missouri River are forecast to experience an elevated flood risk this spring. The National Weather Service says those conditions will only be made worse by already saturated soils and a lot of snow to melt.   The NWS issued its first Spring Flood Outlook last week, saying Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, and eastern North and South Dakota all face an above-average flooding

Record flooding in 2019 added a lot of money to federal crop insurance payouts last year.   To date, $6.4 billion has been paid out to growers, most of which farm in the Midwest.  It marks the costliest payout on record. Most of the money is tied directly to spring and summer flooding in states like North and South Dakota, Minnesota, and Illinois.   “...

Flooding that started along the Missouri River in March, is expected to continue into December.  Kevin Grode with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said this year is shaping up to be one for the record books.   “The 2019 calendar year runoff forecast for the upper Missouri River basin above Sioux City, Iowa, is 61.0 million-acre feet,...