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How climate change intensifies the water cycle, fueling extreme rainfall and flooding – the Northeast deluge was just the latest

  • Written by Mathew Barlow, Professor of Climate Science, UMass Lowell
How climate change intensifies the water cycle, fueling extreme rainfall and flooding – the Northeast deluge was just the latestPeople were trapped in stores as floodwater swept through Highland Falls, N.Y., on July 9, 2023.AP Photo/John Minchillo

A powerful storm system that hit the U.S. Northeast on July 9 and 10, 2023, dumped close to 10 inches of rain on New York’s Lower Hudson Valley in less than a day and sent mountain rivers spilling over their banks and into...

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