Ray (webmaster) on 5/7/2023 11:17:33 AM:
Here's a great resource - the National Weather Service's river level prediction website:
https://water.weather.gov/ahps2/index.php?wfo=lsx&view=1,1,1,1,1,1
There's a lot of data and it looks a little overwhelming, but the key point is that all the observations along the Missouri River show up as green (good!). And the surrounding areas (which feed into the Missouri) are also green.
As the post above indicates, the only non-green observations are along the Mississippi River, upstream from the confluence, so no worries for the Katy Trail.
Of course a series of several heavy rains can change things, so I'd check back in from time to time. But trail flooding is not necessarily an annual thing - there are good years and bad years, and this year is good so far.
And now I'm gonna have Johnny Cash singing in my head all day :-)