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How A Warmer Climate Helped Shape Harvey

Rising temperatures factored into making the storm a watery giant, but other factors helped turn it into a catastrophe.
A person and a dog make their way through a flooded street in Houston after the area was inundated with flooding from Harvey, which has been downgraded from a hurricane to a tropical storm.

The rain just won't stop. More than two days after Hurricane Harvey made landfall on the Texas coast, it continues to dump water across the region.

So much rain has fallen in the Houston area that the National Weather Service has had to revamp its charts.

Climate researchers agree that climate change can be partially to

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