Tuesday, March 16, 1999
Lack of rain cuts threat of flooding
Cool nights will slow snow melt
BY PERRY BROTHERS
The Cincinnati Enquirer
Tristaters should expect slushy muck but no flooding as warmer temperatures thaw the latest wintry snowfall.
No additional precipitation is expected this week. While daytime temperatures climb into the high 50s, the nighttime lows will drop near or below freezing. Those two factors should prevent significant flooding throughout Greater Cincinnati, according to flood and weather experts.
“It's going to be muddy through the week, but we're not anticipating any flooding,” said Jeff Dobur, a hydro-meteorologist with the Ohio River Forecast Center in Wilmington, Ohio. “If we were anticipating another storm with heavy rainfall, that would be a different story.”
Jeffrey Sites, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Wilmington, said Tristate weather should be dry and sunny for the next five days, with warmer temperatures.
Lows near 32 degrees will control the runoff, even in areas such as Adams County, which received as much as 17 inches of snow on Sunday.
The nighttime cooling will prevent any extreme release of water into the river and its tributaries, Mr. Sites said.
The last time a major snowfall led to Tristate flooding was in January 1996. Snow followed by heavy rains caused the Ohio River to flood at various locations. The river crested in Cincinnati on Jan. 24, 1996 at 57.3 feet.
On Monday, the river level was 30.9 feet, about 6 feet below the March average and nowhere near the 64-foot level that caused the massive flooding in March 1997.
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