All eyes are on the Mississippi River as it reaches record levels in Missouri; the Wall Street Journal has a good interactive chart of flood gauges throughout the Midwest and South. For an overhead look at the extent of the flooding, this time-lapse video from NASA shows how the water has spread out from the confluence of the Mississippi and the Ohio near Cairo:
Here’s a still photo to get your bearings (top is May 3, bottom is April 14, 2010):
![Mississippi River flood picture](/wp-content/archive/whet/mississippi_river_flood.jpg)
And in an entirely different sort of timelapse, here’s this spring’s wet weather visualized:
![Mississippi Ohio river spring rains](/wp-content/archive/whet/spring-flooding-rains.jpg)
The Ohio is also flooding; here’s a satellite image of Mt. Vernon, Indiana, near the Indiana/Illinois/Kentucky border:
And the rising waters, as viewed April 29 and May 8 of this year:
![Mississippi River flood](/wp-content/archive/whet/mississippi-river-satellite.jpg)
![Mississippi River flood](/wp-content/archive/whet/mississippi-river-satellite2.jpg)
Photographs: NASA