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In two places on the same night, the storm that deluged the Northeast this weekend dumped rain at or near rates that should be expected only once in a thousand years. The storm killed at least three people and caused widespread flooding. It dropped about 10 inches of rain over 12 hours on Sunday in parts of Connecticut including Oxford and Southbury. About 35 miles away, about 6.7 inches of rain fell in three hours on Sunday night in Stony Brook, New York.
Such storms are stressing infrastructure — roadways, stormwater systems and pipes — that was designed for a more moderate climate. “We have to be more concerned about flash floods occurring and how we think in the future in design, in urban planning and so forth,” Wysocki said. Some scientists also think that climate change is altering the behavior of the jet stream and making it more likely for areas of high and low pressure to stall, or become blocked.
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