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Rain Stops, for Now, in the Flooded Midwest

Aired April 24, 2001 - 10:07   ET

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KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR: Another tired and determined person, Chad Myers. He's been following all the crazy weather patterns with that big smile. He's keeping in a happy mood.

CHAD MYERS, AMS METEOROLOGIST: I have good news for the folks up there. It has stopped raining and it's stopped windy.

HARRIS: Great. OK.

MYERS: It's stopped blowing, I guess. Things are going to get a whole lot better for the folks up there. We had a lot of rain over the weekend up in the northern basin up here in the Missouri River basin and the Mississippi River basin, but we're not seeing anymore and the new computer models that are just printing out literally show no more rainfall for the next 10 days.

Here's the next seven. A few scattered rain showers down across the southeast. Good news for the southeast and into Florida. We're already looking, this is Tuesday so about Sunday now into Monday and now into Tuesday, more rain developing for the southeast. But if you notice up here, not a drop coming down and so what's there is there. Not much melting. Most of the snow is already gone. Yes, they had a little bit, but most of it's gone so now we look for the improving conditions all the way up and down from really Minnesota all the way down into St. Louis.

Now, this water, although the bubble, if you will, is somewhere right in here in Davenport, will eventually travel all the way down the Mississippi River, so we'll probably be having stories like this for the next couple of weeks until all that water finally gets down into the Gulf of Mexico.

Rainfall for the next seven days in this area here, the two to three inches area here, and also down into Florida, more rain for the folks down there. Could be enough rain by the end of next week to alleviate a lot of the drought down there. A little tropical system could be traveling over Florida. That's some great news for the folks there, and I'll have that forecast for you coming up just a little bit later.

Back to you guys.

PHILLIPS: Chad, thank you.

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