Floods in USA
Tens of thousands of residents in Northern California were ordered to immediately evacuate their homes on Sunday 12 February after erosion at the emergency spillway at Lake Oroville threatened to…
Parts of Northern California have been inundated with rain after a storm hit on Tuesday, 07 February, 2017. Some areas have recorded almost 7 inches (177.8 mm) of rain in…
Coastal wetlands around the world are expected to transform as a result of a changing rainfall and temperature patterns as well as sea level rises. Wetlands are essential for protecting…
A group in the USA representing environmental, insurance, housing and disaster mitigation interests is urging regulators to implement proposal to expand consumer choice for US flood insurance program. The National…
New U.S. regional sea level scenarios developed by NOAA and its partners will give coastal communities better, more localized data to help them plan for and adapt to the risk…
As a part of the city’s response to the devastating “Tax Day Floods” of 2016, Mayor Sylvester Turner recently announced the formation of Houston’s Storm Water Action Team (SWAT). It…
California which has long been suffering through a strong, multi-year drought, is finally beginning to see some much needed relief as a result of a recent series of storms that…
A collaboration between University of Maryland and NOAA demonstrates the suitability of in-orbit datasets for weather satellite calibration. “Traffic and weather, together on the hour!” blasts your local radio station,…
Extreme rain events have been affecting California and snow has blanketed the Pacific Northwest. NASA/NOAA’s GOES Project created a satellite animation showing the storms affecting the region from January 6…
On December 11, 2014, a freight train of a storm steamed through much of California, deluging the San Francisco Bay Area with three inches of rain in just one hour.…
A storm system has swept across several states in southern USA from Monday 02 January, 2017, causing flooding and storm damage. The system affected parts of Texas late Sunday 01…
The risk of flooding in the United States is changing regionally, and the reasons could be shifting rainfall patterns and the amount of water in the ground. In a new…
Preliminary estimates from the Swiss Re Group using their Sigma data suggest that total losses from disaster events for 2016 will be USD 158 billion, up from USD 94 billion…
In an earlier article “Is Enough Being Done to Protect European Cultural Heritage Resources From Flood Risk?” FloodList examined the process of incorporating disaster protection for heritage resources into broader…
In the days before Hurricane Matthew, researchers used satellite maps of soil moisture to help forecast where the power would go out along the East Coast. At the American Geophysical…
A recent study into the August floods in Louisiana says that the extreme rainfall was brought about by an unusual set of conditions that are likely to increase in frequency…
