National Weather Service Chief Meteorologist Dan Luna told top state officials Friday that Minnesota will experience major flooding on rivers statewide if there’s a fast snow melt — with temps in the 50s during the day, and 40s or 30s at night. And Luna says if we also get a couple inches of rain there will be “terrible flooding.” He says, “Any significant flooding, if we experience it — and we will — probably won’t occur until we get into the last week of March and certainly into April. And it will really be predicated by, how fast does it warm up, and if we get rainfall.”
Luna says even if there’s a perfect slow snowmelt, river levels will be high and there’s potential for significant flooding all the way into May — and maybe even the summer.