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Weather Data Inequity in a Flash Flood Hotspot

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Provided by: Climate Central |Published on: May 28, 2026
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  • This article reports on a July 2025 flash flood in Dante, Southwest Virginia, where a sudden summer storm flooded the community.
  • It explains how gaps in local weather data make these floods hard to predict, and how flooding is intensifying with climate change, and provides some solutions.
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Subjects: Earth and Space Sciences
Authors: Katie Burke
Region: Virginia
Languages: English
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