Major to moderate flooding is likely in 23 US states in the spring period March to May 2020, according to NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center. The most significant flood potential is…
Days of heavy rain fell in parts of South Dakota from 10 to September 2019, causing widespread flooding in the state. Meanwhile National Weather Service (NWS) is warning that the…
“I’m looking at (a loss of) at least $300, $400 an acre, maybe more.” US farmers are facing big losses after the spring floods of 2019, writes Stephen Starr for…
NEW YORK, April 10 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Deadly floods that bear the fingerprints of climate change are prompting an exodus of workers from the U.S. Midwest, the world’s biggest…
Flooding in the Midwest, triggered by an intense “bomb cyclone,” has devastated parts of the region, which has been plagued by flood events in recent decades. Floods are triggered by…
Flooding along the Missouri River in the USA prompted evacuations in the city of St. Joseph, Missouri. The Missouri River in the city of St. Joseph reached record levels on…
The flood situation in upper mid-western states has worsened over the last few days. Wide areas of Nebraska and Iowa are under water, with many rivers reaching record levels. About…
A combination of rain, melting snow and ice jams has caused rivers to overflow in Iowa, Nebraska and South Dakota, USA, prompting evacuations and dam releases. Via Social Media, NWS…
Minnesota Homeland Security and Emergency Management (HSEM) says that three southern Minnesota counties have declared a state of emergency as flooding caused by torrential rains washed out roads and damaged…
Governor Kim Reynolds has issued disaster declarations for several counties in Iowa over the last few days in response to flooding and severe weather that first began on 14 June,…
At century’s end, the number of summertime storms that produce extreme downpours could increase by more than 400 percent across parts of the United States — including sections of the…
Intense storms have become more frequent and longer-lasting in the Great Plains and Midwest in the last 35 years. What has fuelled these storms? The temperature difference between the Southern…
Short lived but intense storms bringing high levels of rainfall have been a feature of the weather across parts of the USA over the last few days. Earlier this week…
Parts of central and southern USA, including Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, South Dakota and Colorado, endured storms, tornadoes, torrential rainfall and flooding in a weekend which also a tropical storm hit…
A man died after being swept away in flood waters in Bellevue, south of Omaha, Nebraska on Friday 20 June 2014. The flooding came after huge amounts of rainfall. 6.83…
Communities across the Upper Midwest have been enduring floods since storms on Monday 16 June 2014 dumped huge amounts of rain on parts of Iowa, Minnesota and South Dakota. After…
