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.

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 ...

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 : ...

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 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 ...

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.

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