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River basin and this is the mississippi river basin. it's going to take a while. for a couple of reasons, one there is a lot of ice in that river as it breaks up clog the river and get flooding back behind it on top of that it just takes a while for all of this water to kind of eventually flood downstream. so this is a five-day forecast. everything you are looking at in the red is still moderate flooding. everything you are looking at in that pink color that is still major flooding. we are going five days out and this water just continues to flow down to eventually the mississippi river. and t...

What a difference a week makes. down to 0% just a week later thanks to those storms. and we will look even better the next couple of weeks. take a look at the colors. back in december, a lot of red. we're eating away at it by january 3rd and now most of the state still in some trout, but looking much, much better in terms of the worst of it. so that is good news. 238,000 square kilometers in drought back in december and now we're down to much less than that. about in terms of the snow depth, as well, 6 to 8 feet here, very common in the sierra. some places picking up as much as 20 feet of snow...

2015. 5% of normal. that's what we've had in the way of accumulated snow when it comes to the average snow depth. take a look at the perspective this time last month. about.9% snow kovrk. up to about 31% in the snow coverage area from mountain ma' mammoth. it's improving very quickly. another storm system coming in. higher elevation snowfall. above 7,000 feet, decent accumulation. another storm comes in later on monday into tuesday. you would imagine winter weather advisors locked in this region with additional accumulations. the purple puts us in 12 to 18 inches in snow over that area. certai...

Accounted for. a tornado watch in effect for another 30 minutes from east of little rock and shreveport. this will bring down over 1,000 lightning strikes per hour. this storm system is powerful and rotation is possible with the storm system. we zoom out the perspective and show you the active weather. that pushes to the east. we touched on the tornadoes over texas. there was about ten over texas. besides that another 14 tornadoes in oklahoma and iowa and south dakota. 24 in total. we had 24 severe hail reports and damaging wind reports. incredible story from south dakota. we talk about the cl...

Course measurements that are being made on or about april 1st are showing bare ground no snow. and i just wanted to show you, to give you some perspective, this was the -- the black is the 1977 measurement that in that area was the previous driest on record. the yellow is last year's measurement. green is the average snow depth at this location. and the very top of this pole is the maximum, 150 inches of snow depth that we've recorded in all these past years. this is bad news in terms of the state's water picture. >> that man is the chief of snow surveys for the california state government. th...