The Governor of Minnesota has authorized the National Guard to respond to the county and provide assistance. There are 42 National Guard personnel providing security support. Minnesota Emergency Management and local authorities conducted a town meeting in Glenville yesterday. There has been no request for Federal assistance. By Friday May 4, most models forecast a fairly strong cutoff upper level low forming over the intermountain West which will combine with moist Gulf air to produce heavy rainfall over central and southern portions of the eastern slopes of the Rockies and over the central and parts of the southern Plains.
Heavy snow is possible at the higher elevations of the central Rockies.
As the weekend progresses and into the first part of next week, the upper level system is forecast to move east and bring cool, wet weather to much of the eastern half of the nation. Heavy rains over the Great Plains and parts of the middle Mississippi Valley may produce local flooding and may ultimately add to the Mississippi River crest downstream from the confluence with the Missouri River. Off course, flooding will continue over portions of the Midwest, especially along the Mississippi from Iowa to Missouri. A ridge is forecast to build along the West Coast, bringing at least a temporary end to the recent beneficial rains there. Areas of the Northwest with low mountain snowpack are unlikely to experience much additional relief during the next two weeks.