Summer has increasingly become a season marked by deadly disasters, underscoring the escalating volatility of our warming world.

The National Weather Service urged people to avoid travel if a flash flood warning was in place for their area.

Eight-year-old girls at sleep-away camp, families crammed into recreational vehicles, local residents traveling to or from work. These are some of the victims.

There’s been an abnormal amount of extreme rainfall across the United States in recent days. Here’s what’s driving it.

Additional dangerous flash flooding incidents are likely in the coming days as high humidity, daytime heat and storm systems interact from the Atlantic Seaboard to the Plains, Gulf coast and Southwest.

An oceanographer explains how climate change, warming oceans and a souped-up atmosphere are creating conditions for deadly floods.

"2025 has been the year of the flood," said WPLG-TV meteorologist Michael Lowry in a July 15 email to USA TODAY. "The tragic July 4th flooding in central Texas – the deadliest flash flood in at least 50 years in the U.S. – punctuated what’s been an especially bad year for flooding across the country."

New York, North Carolina, New Mexico and Texas have all suffered serious flooding this month. Climate change is causing even more rain to fall during the heaviest storms.

U.S. President Donald Trump actually sent 700 U.S. Marine Corps troops to Los Angeles in June 2025 — alongside 4,000 National Guard troops.