Event
Midwest Floods September 2016
United States
Heavy rain led to record river flooding in northeast Iowa, southeast Minnesota, and west central Wisconsin, with several locations along the Cedar and Shell Rock Rivers either nearing or surpassing all-time record high crests. The flooding is the result of slow-moving thunderstorms that dumped widespread rainfall amounts of 5 to 10 inches in the region.
Climate change increases the risk of flooding by increasing the frequency of extreme precipitation. In the midwestern region of the US extreme precipitation has increased 37 percent from 1958 to 2012.
Oct 16, 2016 | Des Moines Register
Iowa has little idea of the cost to fully protect it from flooding
Oct 5, 2016 | Des Moines Register
Climate change means more flooding for Iowa, scientists say
Sep 27, 2016 | Des Moines Register
Flooding sucker-punches Iowa harvest
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Sep 27, 2016 | Iowa City Press-Citizen
Photos: Flood waters crest in Cedar Rapids
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Sep 27, 2016 | Eugene Takle, Agricultural Marketing Resource Center
Analysis: Climate Changes in Iowa (August 2011)
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Sep 27, 2016 | Weather Underground via Iowa Flood Information System / Iowa Flood Center
Map: 8” - 10” of rain fell on September 21, 2016
Feb 2, 2016 | Nature Climate Change
Anthropogenic contribution to global occurrence of heavy-precipitation and high-temperature extremes
Feb 3, 2016 | Nature Climate Change
The changing nature of flooding across the central United States
Aug 2, 2016 | Borealis Scientific in Anchorage, Weather Underground
Heavy Rainfall Trends in the US
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