Florida is experiencing a potentially historic amount of rainfall as a flash flood warning continues in the state. At least 15 to 20 inches have fallen in southeastern Brevard County in east central Florida with 2 to 6 inches of additional rain possible. The current one-day Florida rainfall record total is 23.28 inches in Key West in 1980, when moisture associated with Hurricane Jeanne in the Gulf interacted with a stationary boundary over South Florida.
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ABC News reports a potentially record-breaking rainfall in Brevard County, Florida, with 15 to 20 inches fallen and flash flood warnings in force. It compares the total with the state's one-day record but never says that warming makes extreme rainfall like this heavier and more frequent, so a reader takes the deluge as weather alone.
Leaves out the climate link
Serious
“Florida is experiencing a potentially historic amount of rainfall”
Why this matters
ABC News calls the rainfall "potentially historic" and goes on to set it against the state's one-day record, but nowhere in the article does it link the extreme total to a warming climate.
The impression it gives
A reader comes away thinking this near-record downpour is a freak weather event with no connection to climate change.
The context
Human-caused warming has made heavy rainfall more frequent and more intense. The article contains no word on climate or warming at all, not even a single line that warming is loading the dice for events like this.
How we know
On the recordThat warming has made hot extremes, heavy rainfall, agricultural and ecological drought, fire weather and intense tropical cyclones more frequent or more severe.ipcc.ch (opens in a new tab)
Checked against the whole articleIt never uses the words “climate” and “warming”.
Florida is experiencing a potentially historic amount of rainfall as a flash flood warning continues in the state. Climate change is making extreme downpours like this heavier and more frequent.