'We expect the flooding will get worse and become more widespread,' a National Weather Service official said.
"We expect the flooding will get worse and become more widespread," a National Weather Service official said.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's"spring outlook" issued Thursday came with dire warnings, even as flooding was already tormenting states including Nebraska, Iowa and Missouri."More than 200 million people are at risk for flooding in their communities," Ed Clark, director of NOAA’s National Water Center in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, said in a statement.
"The major flooding we’ve already experienced across the lower Missouri [River region] and the lower to middle Mississippi [River] valley is a preview to what we expect the rest of the spring," she said."In fact, we expect the flooding will get worse and become more widespread." Flooded farm fields are seen from an aerial photo taken while Nebraska Army National Guard Soldiers used a CH-47 Chinook helicopter to deliver multiple bales of hay to cattle isolated by historic flooding in Richland, Nebraska on March 20, 2019."Additional spring rain and melting snow will prolong and expand flooding, especially in the central and southern U.S.," the federal outlook reads.
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