Climate change is making severe storms both more common and more intense.

Climate change is making severe storms both more common and more intense.

First the river rose in Texas. Then, the rains fell hard over North Carolina, New Mexico and Illinois.

In less than a week, there were at least four 1-in-1,000-year rainfall events across the United States — intense deluges that are thought to have roughly a 0.1% chance of happening in any given year.

“Any one of these intense rainfall events has a low chance of occurring in a given year,” said Kristina Dahl, vice president for science at the nonprofit organization Climate Central, “so to see events that are historic and record-breaking in multiple parts of the country over the course of one week is even more alarming.”

It’s the kind of statistic, several experts said, that is both eye-opening and likely to become more common because of climate change.

  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
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    18 hours ago

    Generally, you can’t get a home mortgage without insurance, you can’t own and rent a place out if you don’t have property insurance.

    So, Canada, then?

    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      17 hours ago

      I am unironically moving to Minnesota ASAP.

      Cheapest to live in decently blue state, all the climate risk assesments I’ve seen seem to show that, as long as you’re not living right on the Mississippi, pretty low comparative climate risks… oh, and their housing market (thus economy generally) is fairly stable, compared to about half of the rest of the country, whose housing market is currently crashing harder than the 06-08 GFC.

      Canada isn’t a bad option at all, but its actually fairly difficult to legally migrate there.

      Its gonna be really, really funny when the Canadians start deporting waves of poor Americans fleeing northward, in about 5 to 10 years.