Here’s what to know about how scientists determine how extreme a flood is and how common these extreme events are becoming.

Weather forecasters often use terms like "100-year" or "500-year" floods. Here’s what those terms really mean and why these ...

Texas is one of four states at an increased risk of seeing a direct hit from a hurricane or tropical storm with the coming ...

In 2017, Hurricane Harvey caused catastrophic flooding across Texas in August ... Hurricane Idalia hit northern Florida ...

Helene becomes the seventh-costliest storm on record, the hurricane center reported, behind Katrina, Harvey, Ian ... tornadoes and torrential rain injured 117 and forced the high-water rescues ...

This higher fraction of deaths from flooding rain is consistent with recent findings from the NHC in U.S. hurricane deaths since ... Particularly striking was the NHC map of these direct deaths ...

ASHEVILLE, N.C. (WLOS) — The National Hurricane ... Katrina and Harvey as examples." So, with all of this information, how big was the storm? The three-day rainfall totals in late September ...

Hurricane Helene was the deadliest ... Sandy (2012): 159 - Ian (2022) 156 - Harvey (2017): 103 Of the 175 deaths that occurred during the storm, 94 were attributed to rainfall flooding, which included ...

Tropical storms and hurricanes are notorious for producing these high-end rainfall rates, as well as slow-moving thunderstorms. In August 2017, Hurricane Harvey dropped an astounding 6.8 inches of ...