Spring flood risk low for Red River Valley, U.S. forecast suggests
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This article was published 18/02/2016 (3681 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
The risk of a significant flood this spring is low in the American portion of the Red River Valley.
The U.S. National Weather Service issued a 2016 spring flood outlook that describes the flood risk this spring as being slightly higher than it was in 2015 but slightly less than it was in 2014. During both years, there was no significant flooding.
The U.S. meteorologists based this outlook on average stream-flow volumes, normal to below-normal soil-moisture conditions, frost depths slightly below normal and a below-normal winter snowpack.
The National Weather Service also forecast warmer-than-average and near-normal precipitation from March until May.
Manitoba incorporates the U.S. outlook — as well as flood forecasts from Saskatchewan — into its own flood outlooks.
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Updated on Thursday, February 18, 2016 5:41 PM CST: Corrects typo.