Last month they said that the Mississippi River was going to run dry.
Two weeks ago :
Today
ST. LOUIS — Recent rain and snowstorms have eased the grip of the worst U.S. drought in decades in portions of the nation’s midsection, swelling some major inland rivers to near flood stage and drenching some farmland enough to possibly delay fast-approaching spring planting.
The National Weather Service said Monday the [Mississippi] river was at 24.3 feet in Clarksville, Mo. — less than a foot below technical flood stage — and expected to rise to nearly 2 feet above flood stage by Wednesday. Clarksville is about 70 miles north of St. Louis.
Clearly, they need to stop talking to those “experts”.
There are flood warnings north of St Louis now.
And yet, when the drought monitor is published on Thursday, I’ll bet it still shows “extreme” drought in most of the midwest. The folks who put it out won’t let four weeks of more or less continuous rain and snow mess up their forecast of the worst and longest lasting drought in human history.
It will be changed to “Extreme rain flooding” which has never happened before
Because we have never had “dirty” weather before… 😉
Just goes to show that both permanent drought and droughtflood are both consistent with a warming planet (sarc).
You can’t really trust those ex-spurts.
🙂