APRIL, 1912. MONTHLY WEATHER REVIEW. 647

RIVERS AND FLOODS, MARCH, 1912. By H. C. FRANKENFIELD,Professor in Charge, River and Flood Division. The great flood in the lower hfississippi River was still tions of some of these floods will be found in the appro- in rogress at the end of the month and a report thereon riate section reports in another portion of this Review. w3be issued in the form of a special bulletin in the near %e floods in New England and New York were ice and future. As anticipated, this flood proved to be the great- snow floods with warm although only moderate rains, est in the history of the lower Mississip i Valley, and it and the losses amounted to about $35,000, nearly all of will be some time in June before the ast of the flood which occurred don the Winooski River of Vermont. waters pass into the Gulf. P The upper Missouri lfiver floods were also caused by the During the month floods occurred in the rivers of the breakmg up of the ice. Atlantic and E& Gulf States, the tributaries of the Ohio Hydrographs for ty ical oints on several princi a1 River in the States of Tennessee, Kentucky, and Indiana, rivers are shown on &art The stations selected Por the Grand and Saglliaw Rivers of Michigan, the Osage, charting are Keokuk, St. Louis, Memphis, Vicksburg, lower Arkansas, and u per Red Rivers, and in the Mis- and New Orleans, on the Mississip& Cincinnati and souri River. These I! oods were mainly moderate in Cairo, on the Ohio; Nashville, on the mberland; John- character, except those in western Georgia, Alabama, sonville, on the Tennessee; Kansas City, on the Missouri; and Mississippi, which were more or less severe. Descrip- Little Rock, on the Arkansas; and Shreveport, on the Red. 46979-12-11

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