Good morning. Some of us, for the first time in nearly 36 hours are finally not seeing any rain this morning. Radar shows the eastern Ozarks stil experience heavy rain.

Runoff will still occur across the area and creeks, streams, and major rivers will continue to be out of their banks for the next few days. There is really one rule to remember over the next few days.

DO NOT DRIVE THROUGH FLOODED ROADWAYS IF THE WATER IS FAST MOVING AND/OR YOU CANNOT SEE THE ROADWAY

We have had widespread reports of 4-10 inches of rain across the Ozarks. To our east they are fairing much worse. Cape Girardeau has recorded nearly 15 inches of rain with this storm.

These are absolutely incredible rainfall totals. The rainfall total of nearly 4 inches at Springfield-Branson National Airport is a record daily amount for the month of March. For those who may be wondering, the most rain we've received in a day is 6.27" back in 1987. The wettest March on record was back in 1935 when Springfield received 9.09" of rain. Currently we sit at 7.87 and this has the potential for being the wettest March on record as well.

Record or near-record crests are expected this morning on numerous rivers including the James River, the Jacks Fork River, and the Current River, The State Emergency Management Agency has compared the river levels with this round flooding with those of the Flood of 1993.

I am on the road in the eastern Ozarks today and hope to have pictures of some of the more popular rivers on the blog later tonight. As we compile all the information coming into the weather center and newsroom, we'll continue to update the blog. Thanks for stopping by. We had a great response on the blog yesterday and we hope to have the same today. I'll get back into the longer range forecast tomorrow, but just a cursory glance at the long range models shows next week could be dry all week, but I am not buying it at this point. More on this later. Kevin will have many more graphics tonight.

Josh deBerge