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Looking back on America’s summer of heat, floods and climate change: Welcome to the new abnormal

  • Written by Shuang-Ye Wu, Professor of Geology and Environmental Geosciences, University of Dayton
imageMuch of the South and Southern Plains faced a dangerous heat wave in July 2022, with highs well over 100 degrees for several days.Brandon Bell/Getty Images

The summer of 2022 started with a historic flood in Montana, brought on by heavy rain and melting snow, that tore up roads and caused large areas of Yellowstone National Park to be evacuated.

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