Duluth area floods

[chief-david]

Remember-water runs down hill and does not soak into rock.
That is what happened around Duluth. Small streams-8 inches of rain.


http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2012/06/20/Boy-survives-wild-ride-in-flooded-culvert/UPI-13441340210820/

http://www.startribune.com/video/160093325.html#/160093325/video/1/hpmfv

http://www.startribune.com/video/160093325.html#/159971515/video/1/cs

[ocala]

It's amazing what soil can do in relation to heavy rain. Our sandy soil in Florida can suck up 21 inches of rain in the panhandle and it's an inconvenience with some minor problems.
Heavy rain falls in Duluth and it's a major problem.
Hopefully things up there get back to normal soon.

[Farmtalk]

I hate hearing about how nasty Mother Nature can be, and though tornadoes are very destructive phenomena, I think floods cause the most widespread destruction. Though I wasn't alive, the remnants of Hurricane Juan stalled over the Appalachian Mountains in November 1985, and over half the state of WV got 6 inches of rain...It caused 500 million in damages in '85 and is known as the 100 year flood in our state. I hope this flood was the 100 year flood for Duluth.

Here is a map from Intellicast of the weekly precipitation totals:

[chief-david]

amazing how that rain fall looks like Lake Superior

Thanks-good find.


I think that yellow patch is split 1/2 Mississippi and 1/2 Lake Superior. 
The drainage basin for LS is very small. And much of northern MInnesota flows north..

[Farmtalk]

I never really thought about it, but it DOES look like Lake Superior...Almost a little spooky

Does most everything in Minnesota flow downward into the Mississippi?

[chief-david]

No-Divided Four ways. Although the Missouri and Mississippi end up in the same place.

Gulf of Mexico or  Hudson Bay  or  St.Laurence Seaway/Atlantic Ocean


http://www.visitbemidji.com/location/contdiv.html



The Continental divide gets a lot of press in the Rockies, but Minnesota has a big one too.

Find Browns Valley, MN on a map
on the bridge in town- a drop of water on each side will end up in either the Gulf of Mexico or Hudson Bay.

[The Garden Meterologist]

Here is radar shots of the rain totals from the two day days of rain. I recorded 4.88 inches of rain from the system.

[Farmtalk]

That's a wide swath of very heavy rain that fell!