28. Jul, 2011
Record rainfall totals of 7 to 15 inches fell across Dubuque County Iowa and Jo Daviess County Illinois overnight resulting in both flash flooding and River Flooding. Due to the flooding, several roads have been closed across both Iowa and Illinois.
The source article Heavy Rains and Flooding 07/27-07/28 was published July 28, 2011 by NOAA National Weather Service .
Tags: climate change impact, flooding, heavy precipitation, Illinois, Iowa, Midwest, USA
Many events are linked to climate change by virtue of fitting a long-term trend. For example, the record-breaking “once in one thousand years” rains that drove the recent Nashville flood is part of the long-term trend of increasing heavy precipitation events in the Southeastern United States that has been fully documented and firmly attributed to climate change. While one cannot say with certainly that event was "caused" by climate change, one can and should say it is linked to climate change.
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