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News Articles: extreme weather

A precipitation monitor from the Southeast Regional Climate Center.

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  • Environment

What lost funding for weather data centers could mean for Georgia, according to climatologists

Data housed by the Regional Climate Centers includes drought maps, air quality visualization and precipitation and temperature averages by state going back more than 100 years.

April 24, 2025
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By:
  • Sofi Gratas and
  • Chase McGee
A sign on a closed Waffle House on Highway US 19 in anticipation of Hurricane Milton on Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2024, in New Port Richey, Fla.

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  • News

How Waffle House helps Southerners — and FEMA — judge a storm's severity

What might sound like silly logic has become one of the most reliable ways for Southerners and even federal officials to gauge a storm's severity and identify communities most in need of immediate aid. The Waffle House Index was created by a federal emergency management official and is still used today.

October 09, 2024
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By:
  • Associated Press

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  • Your Health

Here's how to turn climate change anxiety into action

More than half of young adults feel anxious, angry and powerless over climate change, a recent survey found. But there are ways to help turn that distress around. Here's how to give them a try.

October 08, 2024
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By:
  • Allison Aubrey
Rain inundated Central and Eastern Europe in early September, causing massive flooding, including in the town of Nysa, southwestern Poland. A new study finds that human-caused climate change roughly doubled the likelihood of that intense rainfall.

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  • Climate

Europe's intense rainfall in September twice as likely thanks to climate change

Extensive early warnings and years of adaptation made the floods less deadly than they otherwise might have been.

September 25, 2024
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By:
  • Alejandra Borunda
Climate-driven flooding destroyed Tony Calhoun’s home in 2022. But as the water receded, his despair only grew. His fiancee, Edith Lisk (left), hopes to bring attention to the mental health toll of extreme weather.

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  • Climate

He survived the water, but not the flood

Climate-driven flooding destroyed Tony Calhoun’s home in 2022. But as the water receded, his despair only grew. Now, his family hopes to bring attention to the mental health toll of extreme weather.

September 17, 2024
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By:
  • Rebecca Hersher
Ann Farkas walks in her flood-damaged home in Canisteo, N.Y., Friday, after remnants of Tropical Storm Debby swept through the area, creating flash flood conditions in some areas.

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  • National

Debby left thousands in the dark, and threats of more flooding

The weather system previously known as Hurricane Debby was not quite done with parts of the U.S. Sunday as flood warnings remained in effect in North Carolina and thousands were without power in New York, Ohio and Pennsylvania.

August 11, 2024
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By:
  • The Associated Press
A rainbow appears behind a flooded neighborhood in Jamaica Beach, Texas, on Thursday.

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  • Weather

Heat and snowfall, rain and wildfires. It’s a week of extreme weather in the U.S

As New England sweated through a record heat wave, Montana got rare late-June snow. Firefighters are battling wildfires out West, while forecasters eye another possible tropical storm in the Atlantic.

June 20, 2024
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman
National security professionals are warning that climate change is a growing threat to global elections.

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  • Environment

National security experts warn that extreme weather threatens elections this year

National security professionals are warning that there's a growing threat to global elections — one that is on par with disinformation, foreign interference and even the threat of political violence.

June 20, 2024
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By:
  • Scott Detrow,
  • Jonaki Mehta,
  • and 1 more
Hurricane Irene caused enormous damage in New York state, flooding homes like this one in Prattsville, NY, in 2011. Major weather events like Irene send people to the hospital and can even contribute to deaths for weeks after the storms.

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  • Climate

The human cost of climate-related disasters is acutely undercounted, new study says

A new study counts the human health costs from increasingly costly and dangerous extreme weather in the U.S.

February 29, 2024
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By:
  • Alejandra Borunda
hurricane damage

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  • Climate

STUDY: Poor communities wait longer to have power restored after extreme weather events

A study of over 500 counties in the Southeast finds that communities with higher than average poverty and unemployment rates wait much longer to get their power back after major storms, but more research is necessary to understand why. 

January 16, 2024
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By:
  • Sofi Gratas
People check an area damaged by flash floods in Derna, eastern Libya, on Monday.

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  • Middle East

Libya fears a spiraling death toll from powerful storm floods

At least hundreds of people have died and thousands are feared missing in eastern Libya after Storm Daniel swept in, destroying dams and unleashing a torrent of muddy water that carried homes away.

September 12, 2023
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By:
  • Aya Batrawy and
  • Ruth Sherlock
Police officers check a house as residents wade through a flooded street after floods caused by a cyclone in Passo Fundo, Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil, Monday.

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  • Latin America

A cyclone has killed over 20 people in Brazil, with more flooding expected

The southern Brazilian states of Rio Grande do Sul and neighboring Santa Catarina are reeling after a devastating cyclone killed 27 people and displaced thousands.

September 06, 2023
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By:
  • Carrie Kahn
Roads and infrastructure are increasing being overwhelmed by heavier rainfall, like the California Central Valley town of Planada in January. Most states still aren't designing water systems for heavier storms.

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  • Climate

Federal climate forecasts could help prepare for extreme rain. But it's years away

Thanks to a new federal law, cities will get better forecasts about how climate change intensifies rainstorms. Still, it won't be in time for billions of dollars of federal infrastructure spending.

January 13, 2023
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By:
  • Lauren Sommer
Hurricane Ian caused $112.9 billion dollars and more than 150 deaths when it slammed into south Florida in 2022, making it the costliest climate-fueled disaster in the U.S. last year.

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  • Climate

Extreme weather, fueled by climate change, cost the U.S. $165 billion in 2022

The U.S. endured 18 separate billion-dollar disasters in 2022, highlighting the growing damages of human-caused climate change.

January 11, 2023
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By:
  • Nathan Rott
Heavy rain from the remnants of Hurricane Ida flooded roads and expressways in New York in 2021. In a hotter climate, rainstorms are becoming more intense.

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  • Climate

An unexpected item is blocking cities' climate change prep: obsolete rainfall records

Cities are experiencing heavier storms and flooding as the climate gets hotter. But due to outdated rainfall records, many are still building infrastructure for the climate of the past.

February 09, 2022
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By:
  • Lauren Sommer
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