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The award-winning pumpkin weighed nearly a ton.

The award-winning pumpkin weighed nearly a ton.

The award-winning pumpkin weighed nearly a ton.

The award-winning pumpkin weighed nearly a ton.

Dang, that's a lot of pumpkin guts!

Getting more dangerous. it rapidly intensified. it slowed down as it made its way over land, allowing for extreme rainfall events to unfold across many locations. and mainly across the northeastern u.s., where unfortunately 50 people lost their lives. new york city broke a record in terms of how much rain actually fell. they had over 3 inches of rain in a one-hour period. the most rain that they have ever experienced within that city causing widespread flash flooding in and around the metro regi...

Obviously. northwest of nashville they broke their state record in tennessee. over 17 inches of rain fell in a 24-hour period. that is an incredible amount of precipitation, unfortunately killing 21 people and destroying over 270 homes as well. these heavy rain events becoming more likely as we increase the temperature. we have the ability to hold more water vapor within the atmosphere. and we cannot forget the historic drought that is ongoing over the western u.s. it is impacting water supply. ...

Swept east across europe it strengthened, turning disruption into disaster. in germany, floods wiped out entire villages. here, the ground just fell away under the weight of water in the night. over 100 people died in these floods in germany alone. awful scenes from china injuly with flooding trapping people in an underground metro system, where a years worth of rain fell in just three days. in the usa, death and destruction in tennessee in august as over 400 millimetres of rain falls injust21i ...

Of the areas that were burned. extreme rainfall is dominated the headlines too. london injuly and flash flooding after a months worth of rain fell in just a few hours. as the same weather system swept east across europe, it strengthened, turning disruption into disaster. in germany floods wiped out entire villages. at erstadt, the ground just fell away under the weight of water in the night. over 100 people died germany alone. hundreds of people were trapped in an underground metro system in chi...

As the same weather system swept east across europe, it strengthened, turning disruption into disaster. in germany, floods wiped out entire villages. here, the ground just fell away under the weight of water in the night. over 100 people died in these floods in germany alone. awful scenes from china injuly, with flooding trapping people in an underground metro system, where a years worth of rain fell in just three days. in the usa, death and destruction in tennessee in august as over 400 millime...