Climate Central: Tornadoes have a tendency to grab the headlines, but the torrential rains that can accompany severe storms can do just as much damage or worse, as photos of washed out roadways and homes from Pensacola, Fla., and Mobile, Ala., have made clear. And as Earth's temperature warms and its climate changes unabated, these kinds of extreme precipitation events are on the rise.
The same widespread storm system that set tornadoes spinning across the landscape from Arkansas to North Carolina this week also...