Major flood stages, the second-highest on record in some spots, stretch from Minnesota and Wisconsin to Iowa and Illinois
Experts say such dramatic swings are to be expected as global warming triggers intense precipitation and unseasonable heat waves like what occurred in Minnesota this winter and spring — and what the swollen rivers now demonstrate.
It was enough to melt more than three-quarters of Minnesota’s snowpack — the equivalent of up to 8 inches of rain — in just a few days, said Jordan Wendt, a hydrologist with the National Weather Service in La Crosse, Wis.As of late Wednesday, the Mississippi had reached 18.24 feet at St. Paul, Minn., and was expected to rise slightly higher Thursday and to not begin receding until the weekend.
“Preparation matters,” Sen. Amy Klobuchar said at a news conference Monday in front of Army Corps of Engineers-built levees in St. Paul. “If we didn’t have these levees, it would be so much worse.”
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