NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GLASGOW MT 451 PM MDT MON MAY 30 2011 ...
FLOODING POSSIBLE ON THE MISSOURI RIVER NEXT WEEK...
THE ARMY CORP OF ENGINEERS ARE EXPECTED TO INCREASE RELEASES THIS WEEK FROM FORT PECK RESERVOIR. THE RELEASES WILL INCREASE TO 50000 CFS BY JUNE 6. THE MISSOURI RIVER EAST OF FORT PECK WILL BEGIN TO RISE SIGNIFICANTLY THIS WEEK.
50,000 CFS!! Wow that is a lot of water if my calculations are accurate, 375,000 gallon/sec, or enough to flood close to 70 acres 1 foot deep every minute, or over 4000 acres 1 foot deep every hour. We were out to the spillway on Fort Peck a day or so ago and it is full to the top of the gates on the spillway so they don't have any other option but to dump the water downstream, on top of that the Milk is back up flooding still. 70 miles east of Glasgow where we farm and ranch we have had all time record snowfall this winter by 1.5 times the old record and now have had 9 inches of rain in May and June is starting out wet. Hay meadows flooded so many times the Alfalfa is about all done and virtually no dryland crops in my area have gotten seeded! And probably won't get put in the ground this year. But hopefully everyone hangs in there because we know before long we will be back in a drought!!