For the first decade of the century, the Upper Missouri River ... unusually dry between 2000 and 2010, but they set out to determine whether that level of drought was normal for the basin of ...

BILLINGS —Abnormally dry or drought conditions are present across 73% of the Upper Missouri River Basin, with drought conditions likely to persist or worsen through November, according to the U ...

Runoff continues to be below average in the upper Missouri River ... “A wet April and May in North Dakota resulted in wetter soils in the state, but dry soils remain in the rest of the basin ...

Above-normal snowpack across the basin. A long-lived, widespread cold snap on bare ground that freezes the soil deep below the surface and builds a thick layer of river ice. Sudde ...

Not surprisingly, water levels on the Missouri River fluctuate from year to year and season to season, largely depending on precipitation patterns within upper ... wet pattern in parts of the ...

Mountain snowpack in the upper Missouri River Basin has melted ... decline as we make releases during the drier summer and fall periods to meet our authorized purposes," said Remus.

Illinois and Missouri. Each spring, the river expands when snow melts across the upper basin. This season, the snow was often heavy and wet, and a string of unseasonably warm days at the beginning ...

YANKTON, S.D. (AP) - With anticipated continued drought, flooding likely won’t be an issue this year in the upper ... remains dry, said John Remus, chief of the Missouri River Basin Water ...

SIOUX CITY -- Because of continued dry conditions ... of the basin is left in extreme drought conditions, mostly in the state of Montana," John Remus, chief of the corps’ Missouri River Basin ...