A Midwest-based climatologist says regional drought has created a low flow scenario on the Missouri, Illinois and Ohio Rivers pushing lower Mississippi River levels to the record lows seen last fall.
Illinois State Climatologist Trent Ford tells Brownfield the Mississippi River at Memphis is currently about 4 feet under “low stage”.
“We had record low stage on the Mississippi last fall and in late October it was somewhere around 5 1/2 feet below low flow.
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