Just weeks after flooding in Tennessee, Kentucky & Mississippi killed at least 31 people, floods in Arkansas killed at least 20 people this week. And today, parts of Oklahoma City have gotten over 9 inches of rain. An Oklahoma City official told CNN, “Areas are flooding that have never flooded before.”
Should we keep calling these “freak floods” or “extreme weather”? Or, given that these kinds of severe storms are exactly what climate scientists have been predicting as a consequence of global warming, do we have to re-adjust what we consider “normal”?
As Brad Johnson tweeted, welcome to the Anthropocene.
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