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Latest precipitation models still seem to underestimate risk as ‘1,000-year’ rain events pummel Texas

The Nueces River of South Texas flowed at twice the rate of Niagara Falls last week during the region’s second flood disaster in two years.

This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy and the environment. Sign up for their newsletter here. Parts of South Texas ravaged by flooding this week have logged a steep rise in rainfall intensity over recent decades, federal data show.  The latest official dataset, published in […]

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