GRAND FORKS (The Forum) – The Red River Valley could be facing an “unprecedented fourth consecutive major spring flood threat” in 2012, according to the National Weather Service.
“If my experiences in the Red River Basin are a good guide, there is already a certain level of concern with the high water in many locations and implications for 2012,” Mark Ewens, senior hydrometeorologist technician, said Tuesday.
Usually, a wet summer has little correlation to the following spring’s flood potential. But this is more than a wet summer, he said.
“With the current wet summer, following one of the wettest years regionally, even normal rain and/or snow over the next six months will dramatically increase the 2012 spring flood threat,” Ewens said in a statement released Tuesday afternoon.
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