Flood forecast changed following the last blizzard

Flood forcast hydrograph from the National Weather Service depicts the Red River at Drayton is continuing to stay below flood stage.
Flood forcast hydrograph from the National Weather Service depicts the Red River at Drayton is continuing to stay below flood stage.

During production of last week’s newspaper, it was yet unclear how much blizzard activity we would see and how it would affect the river levels. While the western part of North Dakota was hit extremely hard the eastern part did not see nearly as much snow.

The northeastern region of the state had been predicted to be in a blizzard warning from late Tuesday until Thursday night. The snow started com…