Cascading hazards and flash floods
Quoting Arika Herron in Axios: "Storms this summer have dumped intense rain on cities across the country, leaving towns flood-ravaged and forcing water rescues — the lasting effects of which IU associate professor of earth and atmospheric sciences Brian Yanites is working to understand better.
Why it matters: The above-average rainfall we've had in parts of the U.S., with some slow-moving storms dropping lots of water relatively quickly, has led to a record number of year-to-date flash flood warnings.
- Along with factors like topography, geology and drought, that rain can lead to major and sometimes fatal flash flooding events — as happened over the July 4 weekend in Texas' Hill Country, where at least 134 people were killed."