Minnesota Flooding – Greg Laden's Blog https://gregladen.com/blog Wed, 25 Jun 2014 13:19:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 https://i0.wp.com/gregladen.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Greg_Ladens_Blog_Favicon_black_GLb.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Minnesota Flooding – Greg Laden's Blog https://gregladen.com/blog 32 32 77525483 Minnesota's Amazing June Weather https://gregladen.com/blog/2014/06/25/minnesotas-amazing-june-weather/ https://gregladen.com/blog/2014/06/25/minnesotas-amazing-june-weather/#comments Wed, 25 Jun 2014 13:19:59 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=19757 Continue reading Minnesota's Amazing June Weather →]]> We are breaking all sorts of records here in Minnesota this June, and not the records for drought (or, for once, cold). It has been raining and storming a lot, and not just in one place as happens now and then. The rains have been widespread and intensive. The flood levels of most rivers are not breaking records because those are set in the earlier Spring snow-melt driven flooding, but this time of year all the creeks, kills, and rivers should be receding not rising.

The situation is so interesting and important that our local public TV political weekly put the weather on top of the show and interviewed meteorologist Paul Douglas about it. Starting just after 3 minutes. Note especially his very important comment at 7:13!!!:

But don’t worry, we’ll be fine.

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