Climate Changed

Weather Gets Weird as Record Rainfall Follows Record Drought

  • Seesawing conditions in Texas, Mississippi River, California
  • Water management, storm preparedness, security risks affected

The Coming Storm of Climate Change

Texas struggled through its driest year in history in 2011. Four years later was its wettest ever.

The Mississippi River rose to all-time-high flood levels in 2011. In 2012, its second-lowest.