The March hydrological outlook, usually an annual report on potential for spring flooding from snowmelt, this year is more a chronicle of missing snow and dry soil conditions.
In addition there is a danger of snowmelt flooding in the northernmost portions of North Dakota, Wisconsin and Minnesota, the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and in northernmost New York and New England, Hudlow said.
Flooding continued along the Red River and some of its tributaries in North Dakota, but cold weather is expected to slow the snowmelt and slow the river's rising over the next few days.
Rain fell in Texas, New England and the northern Plains on Thursday, and mild weather elsewhere in the nation brought water in another form: flooding snowmelt.
Spring weather has prompted an early snowmelt in the Eastern states, while in the West the snowpack is below normal, he said Wednesday.