US weather: States reel from historic floods as fresh snow threatens parts of the midwest
that submerged parts of three Midwestern states have started retreating, but more inclement weather continues to threaten Icy tributaries in those regions carry a risk of future flooding. High flood waters have already returned in the western Dakotas, northwest and central and eastern Montana, along smaller rivers that feed into the Missouri. Once the weather warms up, river ice breaks up into giant chunks, which float down the river stream and can cause a jam, which in turn induces flooding, David Roth, a meteorologist with the NWS’s ...
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