A 1 in 10 year storm event is expected to hit Northern California this weekend. Rainfall totals could easily be twice the average precipitation for January. An atmospheric river will…
Category: flooding
U.S. flood risk is basically a wash thanks to changing weather patterns
Flood threats changing across US University of Iowa study finds flood risk growing in the North, declining in the South The risk of flooding in the United States is changing…
NASA Analyzes Weather Event That Caused Deadly Louisiana Flooding
Record-setting rainfall and flooding in southern Louisiana have been calculated at NASA with data from satellites. An extremely severe rainfall event hit the states of Louisiana and southern Mississippi when…
NASA analyses Maryland storm system that caused flooding
NASA looks at historic flooding from slow-moving Maryland storms NASA analyzed rainfall data from slow-moving storms that triggered flash floods over parts of central Maryland and caused devastating flooding in…
El Niño made a nuisance of itself in 2015
From NOAA HEADQUARTERS Record ‘nuisance flooding’ in many US cities tied to Pacific weather pattern The frequency of nuisance tidal flooding in many U.S. cities increased as predicted for the…
Record Missouri flooding was manmade calamity, not climate change, scientist says
Remember when some low caliber science pundits immediately jumped on the “climate change” bandwagon of blame? It turns out that as usual, they were wrong. This new study shows extreme…
Flooding And Planning: We Don't Need To Live Near Rivers Anymore
Guest Opinion: Dr. Tim Ball Petula Clark sang, “Don’t sleep in the subway, darling. Don’t stand in the pouring rain.” More helpful advice would urge, “Don’t live in the floodplain,…
USGS puts the kibosh on '1000 year flood' and 'caused by climate change' claims over South Carolina flooding
From the “looks like a win for skeptics” department. USGS publishes new information that quashes widespread media and activist claims that the flood in South Carolina was caused by climate change; nor…
Satellite image shows South Carolina's 'Once-in-a-Thousand-Years Flood' was due to a 'complex meteorological event'
From the “more facts against the Mann” department. While claims of climate change swirl about from the usual doomsayers, such as this one from Time Magazine: Climate change is making…
Kashmir Floods Nothing New, Not Due To Climate Change
From the GWPF Press Release 12/11/14 Floods are a recurring feature of the Indian Monsoon London, 12 November: A new briefing paper published today by the Global Warming Policy Foundation…
Climate change not to blame for 2013 Colorado floods – lack of infrastructure upgrades played a key role
From the University of Colorado Denver CU Denver study says upgrading infrastructure could reduce flood damage Outdated roads, bridges added to flood losses last year DENVER (Oct. 29, 2014) –…
Rainfall & Floods – Observations More Reliable Than Climate Models
New GWPF Briefing Paper –Press Release 10/10/14 London, 10 October: A new briefing paper from the Global Warming Policy Foundation reviews the scientific literature on rainfall and floods and finds…
Phoenix flooding – not due to 'climate change', extreme rainfall events are not on the increase
Ah the alarmists are out in full force today over a rainstorm. The Sky Harbor Airport in Phoenix reported 2.96 inches of rain before 8:30 a.m. local time, beating the…
Recent paper finds extreme weather & flooding became less frequent/extreme in Southwest England
Remember this past winter and the wailing over the floods in the Somerset levels? The paper, much like our WUWT analysis this past winter, totally contradicts the Guardian’s claims, which…
UK flooding tied to proximity of urbanization and population growth
From the University of Southampton , word that mostly increased flooding is a reporting bias due to proximity, much like we have a reporting bias in tornado counts because there…
Farmers Insurance Group pulls the plug on idiotic 'weather is climate' lawsuit
From the Insurance Journal: Insurer mysteriously withdraws high-profile lawsuit for climate damages in Chicago flooding case Evan Lehmann, E&E reporterClimateWire: Thursday, June 5, 2014 Farmers Insurance Co. has withdrawn its…
The real reason for flooding in Somerset Levels? Not global warming – river management
UPDATE: Satellite images added. UPDATE2: Upon further inspection of satellite images and flood maps I’ve concluded that while what this commenter had to say about the history is indeed true,…
Flood fight at the Met Office
No, global warming did NOT cause the storms, says one of the Met Office’s most senior experts One of the Met Office’s most senior experts yesterday made a dramatic intervention…
Somerset Floods – February Update
By Paul Homewood I have been waiting to update the situation with regard to the flooding of the Somerset Levels. I had hoped to include the rainfall data for the…
UK flooding, Met Office, and all that – a map from 878AD tells us more than Slingo
There’s quite a hullabaloo in the UK as the Met Office tries to link recent flooding in Bridgwater, Somerset with global warming, with Lord Lawson even calling Met Office Julia…
Oh my! Climate change threatens to cause 'trillions' in damage to world's coastal regions
From the University of Southampton and the department of potential assorted threats and sundries, comes this claim. New research predicts that coastal regions may face massive increases in damages from…
Study: Changing Land-use Not Global Warming to Blame for Increased Flood Risk
Major flood events occur around the world every year, but with international loss databases documenting increased incidents of flooding, more material loss and greater fatality rates, are these events on…
Flooding In The Somerset Levels – A Case Study
By Paul Homewood http://www.telegraph.co.uk/topics/weather/10564671/Stranded-the-island-in-the-middle-of-the-English-countryside.html There was an interesting report in last Sunday’s Telegraph about recent flooding in the Somerset Levels. I’ll not reprint the whole thing, but would certainly recommend…
Is England’s Bad Weather A Sign Of Climate Change?
By Paul Homewood The December floods in England have been a big story recently, and, of course, still remain a problem. The term “extreme weather” has been bandied about, along…
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