Texas floods reveal limitations of disaster forecasting under climate crisis

<p>Texas’s ‘flash flood alley’ could bring even more floods in near future as Trump cuts compound with warming climate</p><p>The ongoing challenges of forecasting extreme weather during the era of the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-crisis">climate crisis</a> have been brought to the fore again amid catastrophic <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/texas-floods-2025">flash flooding</a> in the “hill country” region of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/texas">Texas</a>.</p><p>As of early Sunday, hundreds of rescuers are searching for at least 12 people still missing as rains taper off outside of San Antonio and Austin. Hundreds of people have already been pulled from floodwaters that have killed nearly 70 people so far, many of them children at a summer camp along the banks of the Guadalupe River.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/06/texas-floods-forecast-climate-crisis">Continue reading...</a>