Starting March 1st, the National Weather Service won’t issue as many flood advisories. Those are the notices when the water is high but not at flood stage.
Senior Service Hydrologist Scott Lincoln says the National Weather Service wants the advisories to be more meaningful. Many advisories now are about minor nuisance floods that affect fishing spots and low lying farm land. With the change, the advisories will be issued case by case.
Lincoln says the people affected by most of the flood advisories as they are issued now already pay attention to the river levels closely. They can adjust what they’re doing to avoid problems.
Watches and warnings won’t change. Those are issued when the flood threat is expected to affect a lot of people.