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South Texas Floods and Rising Risk | San Antonio News
South Texas is bracing for a climate crisis as record-breaking floods hit the region, with rainfall intensity up 30-40% over decades—more than anywhere else in Texas. Scientists are sounding alarms, calling recent downpours “thousand-year” events and questioning if current risk models are dangerously outdated. With warming air holding more moisture and extreme storms becoming more frequent, infrastructure built for 100-year floods may no longer be enough. Experts are scrambling to understand the mix of climate change, urbanization, and ocean temperatures driving these powerful storms—and the…
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