The resulting flooding could last along the river until mid-August, they said, threatening communities stretching from Montana to Missouri. "The rises along the Missouri have been caused by really a year's worth of rainfall across the basin over the last two weeks. In addition, snowfall in the mountains is at about 140 percent of normal" said Lynn Maximuk, director of the National Weather Service's central region That has created "unprecedented" runoff that federal officials say can no longer be contained within the six dams built to tame the Missouri's flows.
"This actually is a pretty typical pattern for a La Niña year," Maximuk said. "We get storm tracks moving through the northern Plains states. La Niña basically set up the regime that has provided unusual amounts of snow and rain so far."
Typical for La Nina? What about Man-Made Global Warming? Worst flooding must be warming, can't be the Plover nests, or the fact we've paved and roofed everything in sight, could it?