Extreme flooding in the Southwest foreshadows a wild El Niño winter

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The Southwest just got way too much of a good thing. Last weekend, a ferocious storm inundated communities and killed at least four people . Though precipitation is an essential component of Arizona’s desert climate, the state got two or three months’ worth of it in just a few days — far more than human infrastructure could handle all at once. Since September 20, an astonishing 28.84 inches of…

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