Heavy rainfall and melting snow, plus some ice jams, raised rivers to their highest stages in nearly 20 years.
Published Mar 20, 2015
In late February 2018, heavy rains gave rise to damaging floods along the Ohio and Mississippi rivers.
Published Feb 27, 2018Image of the Day Land Water Floods Human Presence Remote Sensing
What happens downriver can be largely affected by what happens upriver in the floodplains of major rivers.
Published Mar 15, 2018
Persistent heavy rains in the first two months of 2020 have swelled rivers from Missouri to the Gulf of Mexico.
Published Feb 29, 2020Image of the Day Land Water Floods Severe Storms Human Presence Remote Sensing
A series of rainstorms pushed rivers in southern Great Britain to flood stage in February 2014.
Published Feb 17, 2014
Acquired June 23, 2011, this natural-color image shows the Wabash-Ohio confluence after 2011 spring floods retreated.
Published Jul 3, 2011
Louisiana prepared for the arrival of flood water that stemmed from heavy rains that fell far upriver in Missouri and Illinois.
Published Jan 16, 2016
The Ohio River becomes a tributary of the Mississippi River directly south of Cairo, Illinois, a small city on the spit of land where the rivers converge. Brown, sediment-laden water flowing generally northeast to south from the Ohio River is distinct from the green and relatively sediment-poor water of the Mississippi River (flowing northwest to south). The color of the rivers in this image is reversed from the usual condition of a green Ohio and a brown Mississippi.
Published Feb 6, 2006
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