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The US faces more frequent extreme weather events, but attitudes and actions aren't keeping up

UNITED STATES, JUL 9 – The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's climate extreme index shows a 58% increase in severe weather since the 1980s amid agency budget cuts and over 100 recent deaths.

  • Data shows ability to prepare hasn't kept pace with worsening weather, and Oppenheimer warns, `We're destroying the capability we have that we need more and more in the future`.
  • Officials in Hunt, Texas, combed floodbanks after July 5, 2025, floodwaters, with Peek warning that future disasters require planning for worst-case scenarios, not just past events.
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The US faces more frequent extreme weather events, but attitudes and actions aren’t keeping up

By SETH BORENSTEIN WASHINGTON (AP) — After deadly flooding in central Texas in 1987, some thought they’d proven they could handle Mother Nature’s best punch. Then came this month’s horrific flash floods, when unfathomable amounts of rain fell in only hours and more than 100 people died. Before 2021, the typically temperate Pacific Northwest and western Canada seemed highly unlikely to get a killer heat wave, but they did. Tropical Hawaii once fe…

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By SETH BORENSTEIN WASHINGTON (AP) — After the deadly floods in central Texas in 1987, some thought they had proven they could handle Mother Nature’s harshest blow. Then came this month’s horrific flash floods, when unimaginable amounts of rain fell in just hours and more than 100 people died. Before 2021, the normally temperate Pacific Northwest and western Canada seemed highly unlikely to suffer a deadly heat wave, but they did. Hawaii, which …

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NBC Boston broke the news in Boston, United States on Tuesday, July 8, 2025.
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