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Heavy Rains & Rapid Thaw Coming
Communities & Farmers Urged To Prepare
'Record Floods On The Way'
by Theodore White, astromet.sci
The winter of 2019 set numerous records for cold temperatures, snow and precipitation across North America and winter is not yet over here in the month of March.
Another record is coming - this time for floods.
The flooding disaster begins at the vernal equinox of mid-March 2019 and will last into mid-May.
This extreme weather and climate of global cooling, which has been underway since mid-December 2017 is still in its early first phase with much worse to come in the years and decades ahead.
All of it caused by the Sun's Grand Minimum.
And as I forecasted last year, winter 2019 would be late and would last into March and April.
The damage from the extreme conditions featuring record low temperatures, deep snowfall, gusting winds and tornadoes along with precipitation of heavy rains will continue into April.
What many millions of people can expect going forward into April and May 2019 is floods.
The flood risk is due to the perfect storm - the combination of heavy rains, snowmelt and sogged ground.
The saturated and/or frozen soils along with thick ice cover on local rivers is going to make a total mess in the weeks to come.
If you do not have flood insurance - get it now because millions of people will need it soon.
High water levels on the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers is already snarling barges loaded with grain, chemicals and fuel as the rivers and their tributaries rise.
As the Sun angle rises with the onset of the vernal equinox in mid-March expect temperatures to also rise along with more heavy rains.
The downpours coming across the Upper Midwest, where deep snow already covers ground saturated before it froze over during winter is going to cause major trouble.
I tell you that within two to 4 weeks all eyes will be in the Mississippi River because winter conditions for heavy rain/snow will continue over the Upper Midwest.
According to my calculations, at least another one to two more feet snow will fall in parts of Minnesota in March.
These late-season snow produced massive quantities of precipitation. Reports out of the state of Minnesota on March 11, 2019 had Governor Tim Walz saying that dairy barns are collapsing from the heavy snowfall and threatens Minnesota's economy.
Walz met with dairy farmers in southeastern Minnesota last weekend that have been especially hit hard. He viewed dozens of barn roofs that have collapsed in because of heavy snow.
As temperatures rise after this in late March and into April 2019 consider this fact:
There has been 150% to 200% more than normal precipitation over Minnesota and the Upper Midwest since the beginning of the year.
All that snow will have to melt during next several weeks and the water will pass down straight through the Mississippi River.
Everyone who lives, works and travels along the banks of the Mississippi River - from its headwaters near the Canadian border down to the Gulf of Mexico - need to make preparations now because you will be forced to evacuate.
What is going to happen later this month and lasting into April 2019 is the American Midwest is that after ground soils thaw all the heavy snow and ice is going to to melt quickly as heavy rains fall.
That is going to produce too much water that cannot be absorbed by the saturated ground, and it is all going to head straight into the major rivers and its tributaries across cities, towns and counties.
Other than the flooding, another concern is that inland waterways move nearly 60 percent of all U.S. grain destined for export.
In all, about 702.1 million metric tons of freight, including grains, coal, chemicals and oil travel down the Mississippi River system in 2017.
An additional 202.1 million makes its way on the Ohio River and its tributaries.
Conditions along the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers have been high for months as the United State experienced its third-wettest year on record in 2018.
Every single state along both rivers saw higher-than-average rains and snow in 2018, and nine states east of the Mississippi set all-time records in this new climate of global cooling.
Higher levels of water on the rivers limits the numbers of barges that tow boats can pull along the waterway.
As of early March 2019, grain traffic on the Ohio River was backed up at the impassable Smithland, Kentucky lock and dam - which has been closed since February 20th.
To alleviate all the water streaming down from both the Ohio and upper Mississippi rivers; the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers opened the Bonnet Carre Spillway 28 miles upstream from New Orleans.
The spillway, completed in 1931, has only been opened 13 times in its history and this year is the first time it has been opened in back-to-back years.
People have to understand that numerous regions throughout the upper Midwest; the Mountain West saw their snowiest February on record.
Moreover, a decent snowpack has built up stretching from the Adirondacks of upstate New York into northern New England.
As pf March 11, 2019, Minneapolis-St. Paul and Fargo, North Dakota, reported 18 inches of snow on the ground; while Caribou, Maine, measured 45 inches of snow cover.
Astronomic transits show that major floods will take place in at least 132 locations across the U.S. - especially in the MIdwest.
There will be some floods in New England as well due to the record snowfall.
There is also another 178 locations that will experience of moderate flooding along with a at least 471 other river gauge locations that will record minor flooding in April and May 2019.
The perfect combination of snowmelt, more rain and snow just as temperatures warm up will cause severe flooding throughout the Midwest and parts of the Northeast.
Estimated water content of the snowpack over the U.S. on Mar. 8, 2019 showed that the Northern Plains, Upper Midwest, Northern Great Lakes, and Northern New England have at least 4+ inches of water contained in the snowpack.
The Maine Cooperative Snow Survey Program estimated that the snow water content in northern Maine exceeds 12 inches.
While the snow-water content is not bad at face value; the fact is that heavy rains is going to fall across wide swath stretching from the northern Plains to the northern Great Lakes and northern New England.
Floods are on the way.
This is the weather of global cooling. If you are interested in knowing the severity of flooding in your region or knowing where to relocate in the wake of the Sun's Grand Minimum then contact me at astro730@gmail.com.
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