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Few Mainers have a policy that covers the kind of severe flooding seen in the Dec. 18 storm. As climate change brings more extreme weather events to the state, the impacts could be costly.
The unseasonably warm weather that Maine is experiencing due to an increase in heat-trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere gave the wet winter storm its powerful punch, scientists say.
The climate is changing — but there’s still time to adapt, assessment authors said.