Live updates: Texas flooding death toll rises to 50 as search for Camp Mystic campers races on
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Texas floods: Death toll surpasses 50 as search for dozens of missing campers enters second night
“As our planet continues to warm, we are seeing more and more extreme weather,” says the National Weather Service. “We need to be prepared for this. We need to prepare for it,’ says the Weather Service’s chief forecaster. ‘We’re going to have to be ready for it.’
“As our climate warms, the atmosphere can hold more moisture, which makes it more likely to experience extreme rains like this that are occurring in these short periods of time,” Dahl told CNN’s Lynda Kinkade.
“Obviously the loss of life here really indicates how unprepared we are as a nation for disasters of this scale, let alone the scale that’s to come with continued warming of our planet.”
Dahl pointed to the Gulf of Mexico’s unusually warm surface temperatures as a key contributor to the storm’s intensity.
“That is causing this very warm, wet system of air that enables a devastating amount of rain to fall in central Texas,” she noted.
Funding cuts to disaster response and weather services such as the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) may hinder both immediate response and long-term forecasting capabilities, Dahl said.
“We need these critical people to be keeping us safe 24 hours a day in every one of these offices across the country,” she said.
“Forecasting a storm like this one … Where exactly is the heaviest rain going to fall? How is it going to translate from rain into flooding? These are extremely challenging problems scientifically.”
Texas floods: Death toll surpasses 50 as search for dozens of missing campers enters second night
“As our planet continues to warm, we are seeing more and more extreme weather,” says the National Weather Service. “We need to be prepared for this. We need to prepare for it,’ says the Weather Service’s chief forecaster. ‘We’re going to have to be ready for it.’
“As our climate warms, the atmosphere can hold more moisture, which makes it more likely to experience extreme rains like this that are occurring in these short periods of time,” Dahl told CNN’s Lynda Kinkade.
“Obviously the loss of life here really indicates how unprepared we are as a nation for disasters of this scale, let alone the scale that’s to come with continued warming of our planet.”
Dahl pointed to the Gulf of Mexico’s unusually warm surface temperatures as a key contributor to the storm’s intensity.
“That is causing this very warm, wet system of air that enables a devastating amount of rain to fall in central Texas,” she noted.
Funding cuts to disaster response and weather services such as the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) may hinder both immediate response and long-term forecasting capabilities, Dahl said.
“We need these critical people to be keeping us safe 24 hours a day in every one of these offices across the country,” she said.
“Forecasting a storm like this one … Where exactly is the heaviest rain going to fall? How is it going to translate from rain into flooding? These are extremely challenging problems scientifically.”
Source: https://www.cnn.com/weather/live-news/texas-flooding-camp-mystic-07-06-25-hnk