Engineers typically design infrastructure using estimates of extreme rainfall events from the past 50-70 years, he said, which doesn’t account for changes in the intensity of precipitation and ...

Cities spend billions to prepare for extreme rain. Most lack climate data Thanks to a new federal law, cities will get better forecasts about how climate change intensifies rainstorms.

Constraining the pattern and magnitude of projected extreme precipitation change in a multi-model ensemble. Journal of Climate , 2023; DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-23-0492.1 Cite This Page : ...

High-altitude regions will get more extreme rain than previously thought, making floods and landslides more likely, a study finds. By Delger Erdenesanaa As the climate warms, mountain regions will ...

He’s spent more than 30 years studying extreme rain, ... Still, he wasn’t prepared to see it firsthand when his community of Asheville, North Carolina flooded after Hurricane Helene.

Rainfall totals are projected to be so extreme that forecasters are using statistical terms, such as 1-in-25-year, 1-in-100-year, and even 1-in-1000-year events, to describe their rarity.

That will bring more rain-induced flooding to a region of millions that isn’t prepared. The latest example played out on Aug. 18, when a slow-moving storm system approached Northeastern states ...

By Junko Ogura and Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Heavy rainfall in southwestern Japan has caused devastating flooding and mudslides that have left at least six people dead, five missing and 19 ...

Rainfall totals are projected to be so extreme that forecasters are using statistical terms, such as 1-in-25-year, 1-in-100-year, and even 1-in-1000-year events, to describe their rarity.

By Hanna Park, Mary Gilbert, CNN (CNN) — As communities in the central US grapple with widespread devastation from a line of deadly storms that spawned dozens of tornadoes this week, more grave ...

Extreme rainfall brings life-threatening flooding to parts of central US already slammed by storms By CNN Published April 4, 2025 4:02 am ...