AP News: From dry to deluge, how heavy snow, rain flooded Yellowstone

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In Yellowstone, rivers and creeks this week raged with water much higher and faster than even the rare benchmark 500 year flood. Weather-whiplashed residents and government officials raced to save homes, roads and businesses. Guillaume Mauger is quoted. This article was picked up by five different news outlets.

Famously soggy Seattle sees its wettest fall on record

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Seattle, a city known for soggy weather, has seen its wettest fall on record. The National Weather Service says 19.04 inches (48.4 centimeters) of rain fell between Sept. 1 and Nov. 30, breaking a record set in 2006. Meade Krosby is quoted. This story from the Associated Press also ran in the Washington Post, The Register Citizen and Rome Daily Sentinel. 

“We know that climate change makes those kinds of extreme events both more likely to happen and more severe.” – Meade Krosby