(Des Moines)– The latest three-month forecast from the National Weather Service says there’s little chance of major spring flooding in Iowa.
Heavy rains and snowmelt upstream overwhelmed the Army Crops of Engineers’ Missouri River Reservoir System last year. That led to historic flooding along the river.
Hydrologist Jeff Zogg of the service’s Johnson office says last year’s conditions aren’t evident.
Zogg says the usual minor flooding is possible this spring-common along the Missouri River south of Council Bluffs in both Iowa and Nebraska.
In northwest Iowa, the National Weather Service in Sioux Falls, S.D. says that for the most part, chances for flooding are extremely low. Forecasters say the best possibility for any flooding would be on the Little Sioux River in the Spencer area, and even that would be minor.
(Staff and wire reports).
