The New Orleans Engineer District will begin opening the Bonnet Carré Spillway at 10 a.m. on February 27, to divert a portion of the Lower Mississippi River’s flow into Lake… Read More
National Weather Service
A recently released report by a senior National Weather Service (NWS) meteorologist shows in more detail the increase in rainfall and flood events in the Mississippi River basin in recent… Read More
Tropical Storm Gordon, the first official tropical system to make a U.S. landfall during the 2018 Atlantic Hurricane Season, came ashore late in the night September 4 near Pascagoula, Miss.,… Read More
Twenty-five years ago this week, the Mississippi River reached its highest point in recorded history on the St. Louis gage. With the river only a few feet below the top… Read More
The 2018 Atlantic hurricane season officially begins June 1—less than two weeks from now—and runs through November 30. Although the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has yet to release its… Read More
