Weather patterns similiar to 1993
Posted by Shalista on 6/14/2011, 9:48 am
I'd take a look at the weather patterens of 1993.  Seem to me to be quite similiar, high pressure sitting over the south bringing 100+ degree summer.  Not mention the Mississippi river flooded like it is now back in 1993.

Here is the link to the Mississippi river flood of 1993

http://mo.water.usgs.gov/Reports/1993-Flood/index.html

Look familiar?  Not trying to be sarcastic, just noting some similiarities of weather patterns.

Looking back to 1993

Few disasters in U.S. history match the devastation of 1993, when hundreds of levees along the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers failed, killing 50 people and causing more than $15 billion in damage.

One of the most remarkable aspects of the 1993 flood was its duration. From May through September, major flooding occurred across North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Wisconsin, and Illinois.

Some 50,000 homes were destroyed or damaged. And 75 towns were "totally and completely under flood waters," according to an account by Lee W. Larson, Chief of the Hydrologic Research Laboratory at NOAA's National Weather Service.

Levees inadequate

According to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, water overtopped or damaged 40 of 229 federal levees and 1,043 of 1,347 non-federal levees.

Among the other monumental effects in 1993:

Barge traffic on both mighty rivers halted for almost 2 months.
Bridges were out or not accessible on the Mississippi River from Davenport, Iowa to St. Louis, Missouri.
Ten commercial airports were flooded.
All railroad traffic in the Midwest was halted.
The 1993 and 1994 harvests were lost.
Numerous sewage treatment plants were destroyed.

The 1993 flood was not entirely unexpected. NOAA hydrologists had warned that a wet fall in 1992 and normal or above normal snowpack in the central United States meant flooding could be serious when things began to thaw in 1993.


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