Mississippi River floods have peaked along Wisconsin, Minnesota border
A lack of downriver flooding is helping upriver water recede at a quick pace.
Source: thenorthwestern.com
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A lack of downriver flooding is helping upriver water recede at a quick pace.
As a result of spring floods, the National Weather Service had issued 58 warnings in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois and Missouri.
Many communities along the river are seeing peak water levels that rank among the top five on record.
As the waters recede in Minnesota, they're still rising in many areas downstream.
Delayed snowmelt and rapid warming are causing widespread flooding throughout the Mississippi River