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Risk of Major Flooding in Spring is Low for the First Time in Four Years

Drought lingers in southern Plains and Southeast, expands in West and upper Midwest

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Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–March 15, 2012

U.S. Spring Flood Risk Map for 2012.

U.S. Spring Flood Risk Map for 2012. Read the full National Hydrologic AssessmentDownload here (Credit: NOAA)

For the first time in four years, no area of the country faces a high risk of major to record spring flooding, largely due to the limited winter snowfall, according to NOAA’s annual Spring Outlook, which forecasts the potential for…

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