{"id":95366,"date":"2016-02-19T14:31:14","date_gmt":"2016-02-19T20:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=95366"},"modified":"2016-02-19T14:31:14","modified_gmt":"2016-02-19T20:31:14","slug":"spring-regional-flood-outlook-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=95366","title":{"rendered":"Spring regional flood outlook 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2013 The National Weather Service says the risk of widespread flooding in the western two-thirds of North Dakota this spring is well below normal, due in large part to a minimal snowpack.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<strong> Hydrologists say heavy spring rains or ice jams could lead to some minor flooding in some areas of the Souris, Missouri and James River valleys.<\/strong><br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Devils Lake is expected to have \u201ca typical late-spring rise\u201d this year. The ice-covered lake currently is down about 1\u00a0 1\/2 feet from this time last year. There is virtually no chance the lake will succeed its record level set in June 2011.<a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/NationalWeatherServicelogo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-11547\" alt=\"NationalWeatherServicelogo\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/NationalWeatherServicelogo-300x201.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/NationalWeatherServicelogo-300x201.png 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/NationalWeatherServicelogo-260x175.png 260w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/NationalWeatherServicelogo.png 447w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>FARGO, N.D. (AP) \u2013 The National Weather Service says the threat for noteworthy spring flooding in the Red River Valley is low.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The outlook shows a 50 percent chance that the river will reach 20 feet in the Fargo area, which is 2 feet above flood stage. The chance of major flooding is about 5 percent.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The weather service says the snowpack and snow water equivalent are at 40-80 percent of normal in most areas. The climate outlook calls for warmer-than-normal temperatures with near-normal precipitation heading into spring.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Fargo area dealt with three straight years of flooding beginning with a record Red River crest in 2009. The city last experienced significant flooding in 2013.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The next report is scheduled for March 3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2013 The National Weather Service says the risk of widespread flooding in the western two-thirds of North Dakota this spring is well below normal, due in large part to a minimal snowpack. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Hydrologists say heavy spring rains or ice jams could lead to some minor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11547,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state","category-weathernews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=95366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95367,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95366\/revisions\/95367"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=95366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=95366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}