How Hurricane Florence could cause unprecedented damage ...

How Hurricane Florence could cause unprecedented damage ... - PBS

Both Klotzbach and Sublette said Florence could strikes in two waves: first along the coast, and then along large rivers in North Carolina and ...

Hurricane Florence property damage: climate change made it worse

And sea levels going up since 1970 led Hurricane Florence to “significantly affect” more than 11,000 additional homes than would have been ...

Hurricane Florence: The science behind the storm

The Carolinas have substantial hills and valleys that will concentrate tens of inches of rain into narrow, devastating flash floods. In Houston, ...

Updated Estimates Show Florence Caused $17 Billion in Damage

The North Carolina Office of State Budget and Management has released an updated damage estimate from Hurricane Florence showing that the ...

How did the damage caused by Hurricane Florence compare to ...

In coming weeks, long after Hurricane Florence's winds and rains have faded, its aftermath will still pose life-threatening hazards: snakes, ...

Hurricane Florence - 5 years later - ArcGIS StoryMaps

22: Estimated total damage losses, in billions of dollars, in NC due to winds, freshwater flooding, and storm surge flooding. This places ...

Four ways Hurricane Florence could ricochet across the insurance ...

Florence generated a significant storm surge as it approached the Carolina coast at a steep angle and across a relatively shallow ocean floor, ...

What Forecasters Got Right and Wrong About Florence

The hurricane has caused severe flooding in the Carolinas. Here's what science predicted would happen.

Go deeper: Hurricane Florence is a storm threat unlike any other

The storm surge will ride atop sea levels boosted by long-term sea level rise, which has already increased the frequency of coastal flooding, ...

Coastal Hazard Assessments and Forecasts from Hurricane Florence

Erosion and widespread flooding due to the coupling of heavy rainfall and strong storm surge increased immediate and long-term hazards to shorelines, including ...

Florence causing 'historic and unprecedented flooding,' at least 17 ...

Cleanup begins in the areas damaged by Hurricane Florence ... Torrential rain is causing inland flooding with major roadways, including large ...

Toxic Waste Released Due to Florence Flooding Threatens Public ...

Climate change causes not only more frequent storms, but more intense rainfall events, like experienced during Florence. As temperatures ...

Hurricane Florence caused $24 billion in damage, NOAA says

U.S. Marine base Camp Lejeune in North Carolina suffered extensive damage that will cost billions to repair,” NOAA writes. NOAA. Fifty-three ...

Special Report: Hurricane Florence to bring unprecedented rainfall

Hurricane Florence is expected to bring a catastrophic storm surge to the east coast. More than a million people have already evacuated.

How Hurricane Florence Continues to Devastate the Carolinas

The initial storm surges and flooding from Hurricane Florence caused widespread suffering across the coasts of North and South Carolina. To make ...

Hurricane Florence grows larger as it bears down on Carolinas with ...

Models agree that a building high-pressure zone north of the storm will cause it to slow once it reaches the coast or shortly thereafter. There ...

Rapid Reaction: Record Rainfall and Flooding Follow Florence

In the end, Florence was weaker but wetter than initially expected, and between the storm surge, extreme rainfall, and unprecedented inland ...

Hurricane Florence reminds us that ignoring the science of climate ...

Studies have shown that Sandy's surge affected roughly 11 percent more homes and caused and an additional $2 billion in damage than it would ...

Why hurricanes are expected to dump more rain in a warming world

But extreme precipitation like what's forecasted for Florence is what scientists expect from hurricanes in a warming world — it's one of the ...

Hurricane Florence to cause "unbelievable destruction" in Carolinas

This is a dire scenario for the North Carolina coast, because it would expose them to a prolonged battering from damaging winds, torrential rain ...