Flood in Kootenai County, Idaho

Prairie Avenue between Huetter Road and Atlas Road closed due to water over the roadway.

The region was under a transitioning weather regime through the first week of March. March 1st came in dry and very cold under a modified Arctic air mass. This kept soil temperatures below freezing across much of the central to northern Idaho Panhandle. March 2nd into the 3rd brought heavy snow across these same areas as dry northerly flow was replaced by milder and wetter southerly flow. This wetter and milder flow regime continued into March 5th, but with snow levels lifting above valleys floors. A pair of Pacific storm systems bringing through more sub-tropical moisture into the region resulted in moderate to heavy rainfall in the valleys. The combination of frozen soils, heavy rain and snow melt produced flooding across portions of the Coeur d'Alene Area and Northern Panhandle.