{"id":23054,"date":"2025-07-20T04:56:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T04:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/23054\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T04:56:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T04:56:07","slug":"cottonwood-river-rises-over-9-feet-in-minnesota-after-heavy-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/23054\/","title":{"rendered":"Cottonwood River rises over 9 feet in Minnesota after heavy rain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The river forecast is for the water level to fall below the action stage by Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n<p>SLEEPY EYE, Minn. \u2014 Heavy rainfall in Minnesota on Friday night caused the Cottonwood River to rise more than 9 feet in under 24 hours, according to the local river gauge in Springfield.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;According to local rain gauges, Sleepy Eye, MN recorded just over 2 inches of rain Friday night from strong thunderstorms passing through southwestern Minnesota,&#8221; said KARE 11 Meteorologist Jamie Kagol.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0The river forecast is for the water level to fall below the action stage by Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The river forecast is for the water level to fall below the action stage by Tuesday evening. SLEEPY&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23055,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[192,79],"class_list":["post-23054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}