Radio IowaMarch 11, 2021Last Updated: March 10, 2021
Des Moines, IA – Iowa was inundated by record or near-record flooding in 2019, followed by severe-to-extreme drought in 2020, drought that’s endured into 2021. What will this spring hold, as planting season is mere weeks away? Nathan Young is associate director of the Iowa Flood Center, based at the University of Iowa.
It’s been a cold and snowy winter, with some parts of the state reporting snowfall just during February ten to 14 inches deeper than usual. Still, so far, there are no indications of major flood threats. The flood center has a network of about 300 sensors placed on bridges in dozens of waterways all across the state.
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With gradual snow melt, Iowa’s spring flood risk remains normal
Flooded Hamburg on April 2nd, 2019 (Photo by Fremont County Emergency Management)
Iowa was inundated by record or near-record flooding in 2019, followed by severe-to-extreme drought in 2020, drought that’s endured into 2021.
What will this spring hold, as planting season is mere weeks away? Nathan Young is associate director of the Iowa Flood Center, based at the University of Iowa.
“The likelihood of flooding is normal for this time of year, for the most part,” Young says. “It’s slightly elevated in some parts of the state where we’ve got significant snowpack, like in southeastern Iowa. We’ve had a nice, gradual snow melt over the past couple of weeks so that risk is declining. All in all, I think it’s going to be a pretty typical year.”
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