A powerful but unseen climate pattern is intensifying rainfall, swelling rivers and triggering destructive floods across the United States, a Washington Post analysis reveals.
The U.S. has endured five 1,000-year rain events in just five weeks, raising urgent questions about climate change, infrastructure resilience and the growing risks of extreme weather.
A powerful atmospheric river is drenching the Pacific north-west, bringing intense rain, flooding and landslide risk as experts warn climate change may be amplifying these storm events.