While the story of the Texas flooding tragedy and what went wrong is still unspooling, scientists said it provides another reminder that climate change can make extreme rainfall events even worse.
What they're saying: "[T]his kind of record-shattering rain (caused by slow-moving torrential thunderstorms) event is *precisely* that which is increasing the fastest in warming climate," UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain said in a longer social media thread.
Forecasting models that failed to predict the severity of rainfall, a lack of an adequate warning system and bad timing in part led to the disaster that left at least dozens dead and more missing in Kerr County, Texas.
The big picture: Meteorology and climate experts tell Axios that storms like the one that surged the Guadalupe River more than 30 feet in a short time are likely to happen again, partially due to climate change.
Eleven campers and one counselor from the all-girls private camp, Camp Mystic, remained missing as of Sunday after catastrophic floods hit the area on Friday.
The big picture: In the days since the flooding began on the Guadalupe River, the identities of several campers who died have been released.
The big picture: Flooding began early Friday about 65 miles northwest of San Antonio and then spread across the region, triggering evacuations and leaving communities in Kerr, Travis, Burnet and Williamson counties devastated.
We've rounded up ways to support those affected by the flooding.
Authorities say 24 people died andbetween 23 and 25 children are missing from a girls camp after severe flash floods in Central Texas.
The big picture: The catastrophic flooding happened early Friday morning in an area about 65 miles northwest of San Antonio after the Guadalupe River surged following heavy rainfall.
