With climate change, today's '100-year floods' may happen every three to 20 years: research
Monday, February 13, 2012 - 07:01
in Earth & Climate
Last August, Hurricane Irene spun through the Caribbean and parts of the eastern United States, leaving widespread wreckage in its wake. The Category 3 storm whipped up water levels, generating storm surges that swept over seawalls and flooded seaside and inland communities. Many hurricane analysts suggested, based on the wide extent of flooding, that Irene was a 100-year event: a storm that only comes around once in a century.