NOAA was developing a way to predict extreme rainfall — until Trump officials stopped it - The Washington Post

The tool would have projected how climate change could affect rainfall frequency and intensity in communities across the nation...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/07/16/noaa-rainfall-predictions-climate-change/

Flash floods like in Texas, New York becoming more common

Context: Climate change "is supercharging the water cycle," sparking heavier precipitation extremes and related flood risks, according to Climate Central, a climate research group. 

Among 144 U.S. cities analyzed by the group in a report from earlier this year, 88% experienced an increase in hourly rainfall intensity between 1970 and 2024. 

The summer months already provide the weather patterns for higher rainfall rates in some regions, and climate change makes that risk worse...

https://www.axios.com/2025/07/16/flood-rain-climate-change-storms-texas-new-york 

 

Floods tore through California crops – now small immigrant farmers face destitution

The water came in a rush – tearing through planted rows of cabbage, broccoli and cauliflower before crashing into the tractors and farm equipment. Within hours, much of María Inés Catalán's 41-acre (17-hectare) organic farm in Hollister, California, had disappeared under several feet of water...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/apr/18/california-immigrant-farmers-flooding

Rainwater in parts of US contain high levels of PFAS chemical, says study

Levels high enough to potentially impact human health and trigger regulatory action, which only targets two of 4,700 variants
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/dec/17/rainwater-pfas-us-potentially-toxic-levels-study

Record levels of rain in Japan force 1 million people to evacuate - The Washington Post

More than 1 million residents across the island of Kyushu in southwestern Japan were ordered to evacuate Wednesday amid torrential rains and warnings of severe flooding and landslides. According to the latest weather forecast, the massive downpour, which has already brought record levels of rain over the past 72 hours, is set to intensify over the next 12 hours.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2019/07/03/record-levels-rain-japan-force-million-people-evacuate/

Heaviest rainfall in more than a decade paralyzes Mumbai, home to 20 million people - The Washington Post

Torrential monsoon rain over the last 24 hours has brought Mumbai, India’s second most populous city, to a grinding halt. It received 375 millimeters (almost 15 inches) of rainfall, the highest in 14 years, according to India’s Meteorological Department. Very heavy rain is expected for another day, according to the forecast, before it eases. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2019/07/02/heaviest-rainfall-years-brings-indian-city-million-halt/

Farmers in deep trouble as extreme weather pummels Midwest - The Washington Post

A historically delayed planting season is causing an amount of stress and angst in farm country that "cannot be overstated."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2019/05/30/extreme-weather-is-pummeling-midwest-farmers-are-deep-trouble

A week of relentless rain is terrorizing Oklahoma, swallowing homes and sounding flood sirens - The Washington Post

If you’ve tuned into an evening newscast lately, odds are you’ve seen dozens of tornadoes that have been spinning up in the Great Plains and Midwest. But there’s an even greater threat terrorizing the middle of the country: life-threatening flooding.....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2019/05/24/week-relentless-rain-is-terrorizing-oklahoma-swallowing-homes-sounding-flood-sirens/

As climate change bites in America’s midwest, farmers are desperate to ring the alarm - the guardian

'The changes have become more radical': farmers are spending more time and money trying to grow crops in new climates Richard Oswald did not need the latest US government report on the creeping toll of climate change to tell him that farming in the Midwest is facing a grim future, and very likely changing forever. For Oswald, the moment of realisation came in 2011. .....
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/dec/12/as-climate-change-bites-in-americas-midwest-farmers-are-desperate-to-ring-the-alarm

Kansas Farmers Are Finally Seeing Climate Change With Their Own Eyes - Mother Jones

The Guardian talks to Richard Oswald, a farmer in Kansas: "When I was a kid, my dad would say an inch of rain was a good rain. That's just what we needed. Now we get four inches, five inches, six inches in one sustained wet spell that lasts two or three days. ....
https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2018/12/kansas-farmers-are-finally-seeing-climate-change-with-their-own-eyes/

How climate change will affect the quality of our water -- The Verge

Fertilizer, poop, and loads of rain ...
https://www.theverge.com/2017/7/27/16035776/climate-change-rain-nitrogen-algae-blooms-water-quality