Emergency recordings reveal chaos behind deadly Texas flood rescue The flooding killed at least 136 people The Independent UK · Aug 8, 2025
After deep DOGE cuts, National Weather Service gets OK to fill up to 450 jobs The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will hire as many as 450 people to shore up the National Weather Service after deep cuts this spring raised concern about dangerous understaffing The Independent UK · Aug 6, 2025
As the floods hit, Kerrville officials’ messages show lack of information about what was coming Lawmakers plan to hear testimony Thursday in Kerr County. Questions remain about how state and local entities responded to flood warnings. The Texas Tribune · Jul 30, 2025
A derecho with at least one 99 mph gust swept the Upper Plains and Midwest, the weather service says The National Weather Service has preliminarily classified overnight storms from the Upper Plains to the Midwest as a derecho The Independent UK · Jul 29, 2025
Record-breaking heat wave scorches Southeast US Residents in the Southeast U.S. are no strangers to hot weather in the summertime, but the sweltering heat this week set at least one record, and forecasters urged residents to limit being outside if possible and to hydrate The Independent UK · Jul 29, 2025
Iona strengthens to a Category 3 hurricane in the central Pacific off southern Hawaii Hurricane Iona has strengthened to Category 3, several hundred miles south-southeast of Hawaii The Independent UK · Jul 29, 2025
Heat advisories and warnings issued for Southeast and Midwest as temperatures and humidity soars The National Weather Service has issued heat advisories for the southeastern United States The Independent UK · Jul 26, 2025
Americans Strongly Advised To Refrain From Drinking Alcohol In 18 States Due To Extreme Heat It's so hot in these 18 US states right now that doctors are warning people to stay away from any booze. Bored Panda · Jul 24, 2025
Why 2025 became the summer of flash flooding in America The National Weather Service has already issued more than 3,600 flash flood warnings across the United States in 2025, and that number is increasing as torrential downpours continue in late July. There’s a good chance the U.S. will exceed its yearly average of around 4,000 flash flood warnings soon. The Conversation · Jul 24, 2025
More than 100 million Americans to swelter in triple digit heat as new ‘heat dome’ arrives Temperatures are expected to hit over 100 degrees Fahrenheit during the day in multiple areas including parts of Nebraska, Missouri, Texas and Louisiana The Independent UK · Jul 23, 2025
Texas flood protest goes to Washington: ‘No more kids lost to climate disasters’ Twenty-seven trunks symbolise child flood victims: ‘They died as a result of choices – terrible and deadly choices’ The Guardian - US · Jul 21, 2025
Trump fossil-fuel push setting back green progress decades, critics warn US president using ‘invented’ national energy crisis to justify expansion of coal, oil and gas, experts say The Guardian - US · Jul 20, 2025
Trump admin is dismantling ‘critical’ parts of California’s response to wildfires The Trump administration has left the National Weather Service with ‘critical staff shortages,’ according to an employee union The Independent UK · Jul 17, 2025
Camp leader may not have seen urgent alert before deadly Texas flood, family says The new account by the family comes as Camp Mystic staff has come under scrutiny The Independent UK · Jul 17, 2025
The Independent UK · Jul 15, 2025 Americans in 11 states are told to avoid alcohol and caffeine The National Weather Service warning came amid sweltering temperatures in some parts of the US
The Independent UK · Jul 15, 2025 System over Florida has potential to develop into tropical depression, weather service says A weather system moving across Florida wasn’t even a tropical something but it has the potential to develop into a tropical depression as it moves across the Gulf later in the week
Roll Call · Jul 15, 2025 Trump’s proposed NOAA cuts meet Senate appropriators’ opposition - Roll Call Members of Congress are expressing renewed support for the nation’s weather forecasting system after deadly flooding in Texas and elsewhere.
The Independent UK · Jul 14, 2025 Camp Mystic reportedly waited an hour to evacuate after warnings of ‘life-threatening’ Texas floods Executive Director Richard ‘Dick’ Eastland, 70, drowned while trying to rescue some of the youngest girls
The Guardian - US · Jul 14, 2025 A deadly 1987 flood foreshadowed the Texas disaster. Survivors ask, ‘why didn’t we learn?’ The Fourth of July tragedy was described as something no one could have seen coming. But in ‘flash flood alley’, an eerily similar event 40 years ago holds important lessons
The Guardian - UK · Jul 14, 2025 Monday briefing: The ‘toxic cocktail’ of climate denial, federal cuts and the Texas floods In today’s newsletter: Amid at least 129 deaths and billions of dollars of damage, there has been little reckoning about the part global heating and cuts to public services may have played in the disaster
The Texas Tribune · Jul 11, 2025 Can sirens help save lives in the next flood? Yes, but there’s more to it. While sirens can help in areas with shaky cell service, experts say officials also need to consider alert fatigue and provide education on what to do in an emergency.
The Conversation · Jul 11, 2025 Why it can be hard to warn people about dangers like floods – communication researchers explain the role of human behavior Flash floods like the one that swept down the Guadalupe River in Texas on July 4, 2025, can be highly unpredictable. While there are sophisticated flood prediction models and different types of warning systems in some places, effective flood protection requires extensive preparedness and awareness.
The Guardian - UK · Jul 11, 2025 How extreme rainfall in New Mexico is linked to wildfires As the Texas flash flooding risk moved west, the National Weather Service pointed to the effect of burn scars from 2024
Texas Observer · Jul 10, 2025 ‘I Think We’re Gonna Stay’: Texans Hang On in Tragedy-Stricken Hill Country The Richardsons are among the lucky in Kerr County, at the epicenter of “flash flood alley,” who narrowly survived the river’s sudden rise.
The Conversation · Jul 10, 2025 Trump’s budget cuts are adding to risk in life-threatening floods and emergencies Acclaimed author Michael Lewis wrote a book about the first Trump administration entitled The Fifth Risk, outlining the consequences when people who don’t understand how the government of a vast, complex and multifaceted nation works are put in charge of said government.