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Unseasonable Flooding on the Mississippi River

Parts of the Mississippi are swollen and spilling over its banks due to late December rains that are now flowing downstream.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Unseasonable Flooding on the Mississippi River.

NASA image by Jeff Schmaltz, LANCE/EOSDIS Rapid Response. Caption by Adam Voiland.

Published January 5, 2016
Data acquired January 3, 2016