Articles for Extreme Flooding

Extreme flooding damaged their Vermont homes. A year later, they still struggle to recover.
6 months ago

Extreme flooding damaged their Vermont homes. A year later, they still struggle to recover.

LA Times  

Lisa Edson Neveu last week in her house in Montpelier, Vt., that was damaged by the 2023 flood. What has been traumatic and just beyond anything I can even explain is how awful the last year has been.” Since last July’s flooding that left the capital city of Montpelier under waist-high water, it’s been “a battle with insurance companies, the …

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Police use drones to search for missing man swept into river after extreme rain
1 year, 3 months ago

Police use drones to search for missing man swept into river after extreme rain

The Independent  

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “Conditions on the River Tay remain challenging and specialist resources are being used, including …

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Extreme flooding overwhelms New York roadways, leaving 1 person dead
1 year, 6 months ago

Extreme flooding overwhelms New York roadways, leaving 1 person dead

NPR  

Extreme flooding overwhelms New York roadways, leaving 1 person dead Enlarge this image toggle caption David Bauder/AP David Bauder/AP NEW YORK — Heavy rain spawned extreme flooding in New York's Hudson Valley that killed at least one person, swamped roadways and forced road closures on Sunday night, as much of the rest of the Northeast U.S. began bracing for potentially …

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Floods inundate Australia as the country battles extreme weather
2 years, 2 months ago

Floods inundate Australia as the country battles extreme weather

Al Jazeera  

The deluge in Victoria, New South Wales and the island state of Tasmania comes six months after east coast flooding disaster killed 20 people. Areas of three southeastern states – Victoria, New South Wales and the island state of Tasmania – are under emergency flood warnings after an intense weather system this week brought more than a month’s worth of …

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Jackson, Mississippi to go without drinking water ‘indefinitely’ after extreme flooding
2 years, 4 months ago

Jackson, Mississippi to go without drinking water ‘indefinitely’ after extreme flooding

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Jackson has two water-treatment plants, and the larger one is near a reservoir that provides most of the city’s …

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EXPLAINER: Pakistan fatal flooding has hallmarks of warming
2 years, 4 months ago

EXPLAINER: Pakistan fatal flooding has hallmarks of warming

Associated Press  

The familiar ingredients of a warming world were in place: searing temperatures, hotter air holding more moisture, extreme weather getting wilder, melting glaciers, people living in harm’s way, and poverty. So far this year the rain is running at more than 780% above average levels,” said Abid Qaiyum Suleri, executive director of the Sustainable Development Policy Institute and a member …

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Weather whiplash: Summer lurches from drought to flood
2 years, 4 months ago

Weather whiplash: Summer lurches from drought to flood

Associated Press  

Parts of northern Texas, mired in a drought labeled as extreme and exceptional, are flooding under torrential rain. “These extremes of course are getting more extreme,” said National Center for Atmospheric Research climate scientist Gerald Meehl, who wrote some of the first studies 18 years ago about extreme weather and climate change. “This is in line with what we expected.” …

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Flooding, drought and wildfires thrash US this week in what scientists say is the climate future
2 years, 5 months ago

Flooding, drought and wildfires thrash US this week in what scientists say is the climate future

CNN  

CNN — Extreme weather on both ends of the spectrum has thrashed parts of the US over the past week – one of the many signals that climate change is here now, scientists say. “Another aspect is that, over the last 100 plus years, the land surface has actually warmed more than the ocean, so the largest signal that we’re …

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Study: Climate change makes European flooding more likely
3 years, 4 months ago

Study: Climate change makes European flooding more likely

Associated Press  

BERLIN — Scientists say that global warming makes the kind of extreme rainfall that caused deadly flash flooding in western Europe last month more likely, though it remains unclear exactly how much. A study released Tuesday by the World Weather Attribution group used historical records and computer simulations to examine how temperatures affected rainfall from the late 19th century to …

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