From the February 6, 1937, issue
By Science News
REAL FLOOD CAUSE LAY OFF THE SOUTHEAST COAST
A stubbornly unmoving mountain of tropical air off the southeastern coast of the United States that would not get out of the way and permit the normal midwinter traffic of storms to flow in from the northwest is the ultimate explanation of the nation’s flood woes. Ordinarily, the northwesterly storms bring real winter cold, and the cold holds most of the seasonal precipitation in storage as snow and ice until time for the spring thaws. But with this persistent southeastern “high” keeping temperatures abnormally warm ever since well back into December, there was no snow, repeated rains have kept the soil soggy, and when a whole procession of “little lows” came marching along, dumping their moisture, there was nowhere for the water to go but off. And up came the rivers.