I’m a Climate Scientist in Texas. Here’s What the Floods Tell Us

Photo: Over flight imagery of the flooding near Kerville, Texas, July 5, 2025. Photo credit: Petty Officer 3rd Class Cheyenne Basurto. US Coast Guard District 8. DVIDS. Public Domain. Article by Katharine Hayhoe. Time – July 10, 2025.

Late into the night of Friday, July 3, the remnants of tropical storm Barry combined with an unusually humid air mass. Together, they dropped more than four months’ worth of rain—at least 1.8 trillion gallons, roughly enough to cover the entire state of Texas in four inches of water—in just four hours. Much of this rain fell over a picturesque stretch of the Texas Hill Country dotted by summer camps, vacation homes, and cypress trees, where it quickly drained into the Guadalupe River. […]

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