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Flood Outlook Improves for Lower Mississippi Region

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February 1, 2024
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Flood Outlook Improves for Lower Mississippi Region
Flood Outlook Improves for Lower Mississippi Region

Flood Outlook Improves for Lower Mississippi Region

By Tim Loh

(Bloomberg) — The menace of flooding is subsiding throughout the decrease Mississippi River area simply two weeks after excessive waters devastated elements of the St. Louis space.

The Mississippi in all probability received’t rise as excessive from Arkansas to New Orleans as earlier forecasts projected, based on the National Weather Service.

“Crest heights are going to be a bit less than what we were looking at last week, which is good news,” mentioned Jeffrey Graschel, a hydrologist on the Lower Mississippi River Forecast Center, an arm of the climate service, in Slidell, Louisiana. “The levee system is working as it’s supposed to.”

Heavy rains late final yr throughout the Midwest created the area’s worst flooding since 2011, deluging communities, forcing the closing of pipelines, terminals and grain elevators and killing a minimum of 30 individuals, based on state emergency officers in Missouri, Illinois and Oklahoma.

The bulge of water has arrived in Arkansas City, Arkansas. It will in all probability crest in Baton Rouge on Jan. 18 at 43.5 ft (13 meters), about 8.5 ft above flood stage however beneath the 47.3-foot report set in 1927 and the 45 ft of 2011, based on Graschel.

High-Water Advisory

A high-water security advisory stays in impact from Caruthersville, Missouri, to Natchez, Mississippi, the Coast Guard mentioned. The Bonnet Carre anchorage is closed on the Mississippi River close to New Orleans and the Port of Morgan City has closed Bayou Chene to all marine site visitors.

On Sunday, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers opened the Bonnet Carre Spillway close to New Orleans for simply the eleventh time since 1931, Jeff Masters, co-founder of Weather Underground in Ann Arbor, Michigan, mentioned on his weblog. The spillway can divert as a lot as 250,000 cubic ft per second of water into Lake Pontchartrain, north of town. Because of that, the river is already close to its projected crest of 17 ft at New Orleans, Graschel mentioned.

While it in all probability received’t be essential to open different spillways, that doesn’t imply communities alongside the decrease Mississippi don’t have anything to fret about, Graschel mentioned.

“We do have high elevated waters right now, so rainfall will play a huge role in determining any additional flooding we could get in the future,” he mentioned.

©2016 Bloomberg News

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