{"id":93,"date":"2008-03-21T09:21:18","date_gmt":"2008-03-21T15:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=93"},"modified":"2008-03-21T09:24:47","modified_gmt":"2008-03-21T15:24:47","slug":"noaa-increased-flood-risk-minimal-drought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/severe-weather\/noaa-increased-flood-risk-minimal-drought\/","title":{"rendered":"NOAA:  Increased Flood Risk, Minimal Drought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday NOAA released its spring drought and flood risk predictions and in it are some good and bad news for Colorado.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\" width=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/floodposter.jpg\" hspace=\"10\" alt=\"Beware of the dangers of flooding!\" height=\"301\" \/>First, the good news.\u00a0 With the extraordinary amount of snow the mountains have experienced this winter, the chances of drought are negligible for most of the state.\u00a0 The southeastern corner of Colorado however could see some risk.<\/p>\n<p>Second, the bad news.\u00a0 With all that snow comes a risk of flooding.\u00a0 The danger could be especially great if we experience a warmer than normal spring and the mountain runoff occurs too quickly.\u00a0 Most of the state, with the exception of the northeast corner, runs above normal risks of flooding this spring.\u00a0 Locations in the mountains of Colorado have 150 to 200 percent of average water contained in snowpack leading to a higher than normal flood potential.\u00a0 <u>Flooding is the number one weather killer in the country so everyone needs to be aware of the dangers this presents!<\/u>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For more information, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.noaanews.noaa.gov\/stories2008\/20080320_springoutlook.html\">please see NOAA&#8217;s report here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/2008drought-big.jpg\" title=\"2008 Spring Drought Outlook\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/2008drought-big.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"2008 Spring Drought Outlook\" \/><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/2008flood-big.jpg\" title=\"2008 Spring Flood Danger Outlook\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/2008flood-big.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"2008 Spring Flood Danger Outlook\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday NOAA released its spring drought and flood risk predictions and in it are some good and bad news for Colorado.\u00a0 First, the good news.\u00a0 With the extraordinary amount of snow the mountains have experienced this winter, the chances of drought are negligible for most of the state.\u00a0 The southeastern corner of Colorado however could &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/severe-weather\/noaa-increased-flood-risk-minimal-drought\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">NOAA:  Increased Flood Risk, Minimal Drought<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,6,4,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}