Sunday, July 6, 2025

Over 100 dead in Texas flood. They fired the weather forecasters

Hannah Cloke, a professor of hydrology at the University of Reading in the UK, said the downpour “seems to have been well forecasted by multiple forecasters around the world, several hours in advance” Texas flash flood claims at least 27 lives - on.ft.com/4ewCfKO via @FT

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— Alex (@dralexm.bsky.social) July 5, 2025 at 2:38 PM

Here's a timelapse video showing 30 minutes of flooding (sped up to a few seconds)

Update: Death Toll From Texas Floods Surpasses 100 As Search For Missing Continues President Donald Trump signed a disaster declaration to send emergency relief as families and search teams continue to look for missing loved ones. Sanjana Karanth, HuffPost, Jul 6, 2025

Rep. Joaquin Castro on Texas floods: "I don't think it's helpful to have missing key personnel from the National Weather Service not in place to help prevent these tragedies."

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— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) July 6, 2025 at 8:14 AM

Report Shows How Deadly Texas Floods Were Driven by Human-Induced Climate Crisis "Very exceptional meteorological conditions" preceded the Texas floods, climate scientists have found. Brad Reed, Common Dreams, July 7, 2025

'These Deaths Are on Trump's Hands': Texas Flooding Spotlights Assault on Climate Science "The Trump regime is gutting scientific research into climate and atmospheric science for political reasons, at the very time we need a much better understanding of it," said one environmentalist. "This is so reckless and dangerous." Jake Johnson, Common Dreams, July 7, 2025

Seven Things You Need to Know About the Texas Flash Flood Tragedy, Rachel Cleetus, The Equation, Union of Concerned Scientists, July 7, 2025

Related: Climate data taken down

Climate science involves longer-term data. Climate drives weather. We aren't allowed to have climate science either:

Websites hosting major US climate reports taken down, Seth Borenstein, AP, July 2, 2025

Someone has archived that data here, though: sciop.net

waves on open water

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