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Climate change is making flooding worse: 3 reasons the world is seeing more record-breaking deluges

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par Frances Davenport, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University

Heavy rain combined with melting snow can be a destructive combination.

In mid-June 2022, storms dumped up to 5 inches of rain over three days in the mountains in and around Yellowstone National Park, rapidly melting snowpack. As the rain and meltwater poured into creeks and then rivers, it became a flood that damaged roads, cabins and utilities and forced more than 10,000 people to evacuate.

The Yellowstone River shattered its previous…

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