March 21, 2019
My home town of St. Louis is looking down the barrel of a watery gun. According to Livescience:
Both floods are more or less each one giant wave traveling at the speeds of their rivers, said Darone Jones, director of the Water Prediction Operations Division (WPOD) at the National Weather Service’s National Water Center (NWC) in Alabama.
The North Dakota wave traveled down the Missouri River to Nebraska and yesterday (March 18) reached northwestern Missouri. After passing Kansas City it will turn left, following the river, and make its way toward the joining of the Missouri and Mississippi rivers in St. Louis. [Top 10 Ways to Destroy Earth]
The Minnesota wave is taking the more straightforward route down the Mississippi River through Iowa, past St. Louis and into the ocean. Along the way, both waves should lose some water, so the downstream floods may not be as intense as those upstream.
Amazingly enough the article does not try to blame this on carbon dioxide emissions. It explains that there was a lot of snow this winter then a major rainstorm which melted huge amounts of snow very quickly:
And the chunks of ice in the flood make things worse, Jones said. Periodically, they clump up as the flood moves south, creating temporary ice dams. Those dams cause water to back up behind them, worsening the flooding before they break and release the wave again.
Whatever the cause, St. Louis sits at the epicenter of these two huge floods. I suppose I should invest in a snorkel..
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Just wait, though. The Usual Suspects will be blaming this on Trump in 3... 2... 1...
Posted by: Dana Mathewson at March 21, 2019 03:12 PM (rIYC+)
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