At a time when many business owners would normally be looking to the skies and nearby waterways for seasonal flooding threats, thoughts are elsewhere in the spring of 2020.

The COVID-19 pandemic has the full attention of companies of all sizes as they work one day at a time to keep operating amid stay-at-home orders that have affected as much as 95 percent of the U.S. population at one time.

But the weather isn’t on lockdown. Forecasters are predicting another active season of spring flooding, especially in a central swath of the country from the Upper Midwest to the Gulf Coast and across the Southeast.

Much of this territory is threatened with at least minor flooding, while moderate to major inundation is forecast along the Mississippi and Red River Valleys, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Climate Prediction Center.

Meanwhile, severe weather typical of early spring has already lashed the Southeast, and Arizona will face its annual monsoon season in the summer—a phenomenon some scientists believe is intensified by climate change.