… Flash floods have wreaked havoc across the country this summer, transcending geography, topography and the built environment from the rural Southwest to the largest cities in the Midwest and Northeast. … These heavy precipitation events are among the clearest symptoms of climate change, scientists say. Copious studies warn that they’re already happening more often and becoming more intense, and they’ll continue to worsen as global temperatures rise. … But in recent years, scientists have noticed an alarming trend. Extreme storms in some parts of the world appear to be defying the Clausius-Clapeyron relation, producing far more rainfall as temperatures rise than the equation would predict. … It’s a phenomenon scientists have dubbed the super-Clausius-Clapeyron rate. Researchers are still investigating the reasons it’s happening.

Other flooding news:

• The Conversation: Blog: Why 2025 became the summer of flash flooding in America​
• Newsweek: Map shows where 100-year floods have hit across the US over past year