This massive volume of water would cover 27,000 square miles in parts of seven states, an area larger than the state of West Virginia. The Mississippi River was up to 80 miles wide in some areas ...

Scientists are warning that historic flooding could soon deluge parts of several Southern states along the lower Mississippi River, where floodwaters could persist for several weeks. The flood ...

For more than 80 years, residents of Mississippi’s Yazoo Backwater have been banking on a pumping project to protect their farms and homes from floods. The Trump Administration is ready to move ...

In 1927 the Mississippi's floodwaters reached from Illinois and Missouri all the way down to the Gulf of Mexico. Nearly one million people were left homeless. John Barry, author of Rising Tide ...

On a frosty May morning in 1951, a young woman named Louise Holding Eagle jumped into the cab of her pickup truck, waved goodbye to her husband and two toddlers, and drove off to buy groceries in ...

When the rising floodwaters in Mississippi’s Yazoo Backwater seeped past the barrier, it marked the starting line of a long journey to rebuild. In the historic Yazoo Backwater flood of 2019, Anderson ...

Unlike flash flooding, which can happen in seconds, seasonal spring river flooding is gradual, though last week’s relative heat wave across the Midwest – with temperatures in the mid-80s to 90 ...

Flood warnings and advisories have been declared across nine states as storms are forecast for multiple parts of the country. Multiple alerts have been issued for different parts of Minnesota ...

Major flood risk tops 80% for Quad-Cities. Brooklyn Draisey Mar 10, 2023 Mar 10, 2023 ... The risk of major local flooding on the Mississippi River now exceeds 80%.

First 80s: Most of the region will wait until April to see temperatures in the 80s, but coastal New England cities like Boston and Bangor, Maine, wait until May.

In mid-April 1927, 98 years ago this week, another deluge of torrential rain tipped the Mississippi River basin into a historic flood that remains among the most destructive in U.S. history.