April Runoff Into Missouri River Above Normal

April Runoff Into Missouri River Above Normal

PIERRE — Runoff into the Missouri River continues to be forecast at over 100-percent of average. Officials with the National Weather Service and U-S Army Corps of Engineers held their monthly conference call on the river’s runoff Thursday. Nicole Sorenson with the Corps says the forecast runoff is at 26-point-nine million acre feet…

Mike Swenson with the Corps says system storage for the entire reservoir system is at 50-point-one million acre feet…

Doug Kluck, Climate Services Director with the National Weather Service in Kansas City says looking ahead to summer there are limited indications of temps and precip being over powering or not from June through August…

April runoff, due to a rapid melt, was four-point-seven million-acre feet or 0159-percent of average.