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The science behind how a Florida hurricane ravaged North Carolina

“It tends to squeeze out more rainfall, and unfortunately, it caused extreme flash flooding, which devastated communities. It was a huge amount ...

Rapid Reaction: Historic Flooding Follows Helene in Western NC

... flooding and unimaginable damage in our Mountains and southern Foothills. It was close to a worst-case scenario for western North Carolina ...

Examining the historic flooding in Western North Carolina

Helene's rains were far beyond typical for storms in the region, which suggests climate change exacerbated the rainfall and the resulting ...

What role did soil moisture play in Hurricane Helene's devastating ...

When Helene arrived, the already-soaked ground could no longer absorb any more rain, drastically increasing the flood risk. Fully saturated soil ...

Why did it flood so badly in North Carolina? Scientists point to this

"Normally, fast-moving storms are less of a rain hazard, but Helene was a big exception. In the southern Blue Ridge Mountains, Helene's rain was ...

HURRICANE HELENE'S Extreme Rainfall And Catastrophic Inland ...

This extreme amount of rain over already-saturated soils resulted in catastrophic and historic flooding across western North Carolina. In the ...

How Hurricane Helene Devastated Western North Carolina

While research is still underway on the exact ways climate change is affecting hurricanes, there is scientific consensus that warmer water and ...

The science behind how a Florida hurricane ravaged North Carolina

Helene inundated parts of southern Appalachia with well over 2 feet of rain. Floodwaters carried away entire houses and washed out highways, cutting off access ...

Rainfall Forecasts Were Good—So Why Was Helene So ... - Forbes

The Great Floods of 1916 were caused by a series of hurricanes and produced historic devastation in the mountainous regions of North Carolina.

Why Appalachia Flooded So Severely from Helene's Remnants

“These are historic flooding levels in an area where the terrain is not conducive to being able to withstand those levels of precipitation,” ...

Science behind why Hurricane Helene was catastrophic storm

The damage Helene did in Western North Carolina was devastating. Weather factors, including warm oceans, jet stream, mountains, ...

Climate change likely worsened floods after Helene - USA Today

Flooding on some western North Carolina rivers blew past records set in 1916 as extreme rainfall amounts in the last week of September led ...

How Hurricane Helene Turned Asheville Into a Flood Zone

Before the aftermath of Hurricane Helene dumped more than 30 inches of rain on some parts of western North Carolina and led to historic ...

Why was the flooding in Asheville, North Carolina, so extreme ...

Several conditions in the region, including a precursor rain event and the topography of the land, gave rise to deadly flash flooding, experts told ABC News.

We're only beginning to understand the historic nature of Helene's ...

The answer is that Helene's rapid movement inland—it was one of the fastest-moving storms at landfall in the Gulf of Mexico in recent history— ...

Why was Hurricane Helene so damaging? - BBC Weather

Record flood crests were measured in at least seven locations in North Carolina and Tennessee. In parts of western North Carolina, records ...

North Carolina Was Set Up for Disaster - The Atlantic

When Helene swept through western North Carolina late last week, the rain fell heavy and fast enough to start washing away mountainsides.

Helene's floodwaters have abated, but the risk of more potentially ...

While record flooding caused much of Helene's devastation last month, geologists have mapped at least 301 landslides in Buncombe as of Oct. 24 — ...