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The National Weather Service urged people to avoid travel if a flash flood warning was in place for their area.
This year has seen a seemingly endless string of flash floods across the U.S. The root causes are as diverse as they are ...
There’s been an abnormal amount of extreme rainfall across the United States in recent days. Here’s what’s driving it.
One month before the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, Black residents across southern Louisiana braced for their first ...
New York, North Carolina, New Mexico and Texas have all suffered serious flooding this month. Climate change is causing even ...
An oceanographer explains how climate change, warming oceans and a souped-up atmosphere are creating conditions for deadly floods.
"2025 has been the year of the flood," said WPLG-TV meteorologist Michael Lowry in a July 15 email to USA TODAY. "The tragic ...
And much of the United States east of the Mississippi River, as well as parts of California and Nevada — in total, areas home to more than 200 million people — could see at least some flooding ...
The study, published in the journal Nature Climate Change, estimates that the annual cost of flooding in the United States will increase 26.4 percent — from $32.1 billion to $40.6 billion — by ...
Four 1-in-1,000-year flood events in the span of a week in the United States. In this week's wise, we break down what caused ...