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New Yorkers, after days of heavy smoke and torrid temperatures, are met with thunderstorms and flash flooding

By Ray Sanchez, CNN (CNN) — Following days of smoky skies and soaring temperatures, the Big Apple and surrounding areas were pummeled Saturday with heavy thunderstorms, downpours and flash floods. Two to four inches of rain fell by early afternoon Saturday, with up to an inch an hour expected, according to the National Weather Service.

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Rare high flood risk for potentially ‘catastrophic’ impacts issued for already inundated parts of Texas

By Meteorologist Chris Dolce, and CNN’s Kate S. Petersen (CNN) — Parts of southern Texas are under back-to-back days of a rare “high risk” of flooding rain, spurring dozens of water rescues, as more rounds of slow-moving storms set off life-threatening and potentially catastrophic floods. The Level 4 of 4 risk areas include parts of

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At least five people are unaccounted for in southeastern Missouri

1 dead, hundreds rescued in southeastern Missouri as 1-in-1,000-year rainfall triggers catastrophic flooding

By Meteorologist Mary Gilbert, and CNN’s Kate S. Petersen (CNN) — At least one person has died and hundreds were rescued from catastrophic flooding in southeastern Missouri Friday, including some camping along a river that swelled to historic heights. More than 200 “young campers and counselors” had to be rescued by helicopter after heavy rain

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