Heavy rain threatens flash flooding for millions
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Search and recovery efforts continue in Kerr County, 12 days after the tragic flood that claimed more than 130 lives along the Guadalupe.
Many of Texas' reservoirs and lakes are near full capacity, with some jumping more than 30 feet since early July.
At a news conference Monday, state officials said 101 people remain missing, including 97 in the Kerrville area.
Florida's Attorney General James Uthmeier jumped in to amplify the misinformation - citing a newly passed Florida law banning loosely defined "weather modification" practices that climatologists say have nothing to do with increasingly severe weather events.
In areas that see rainfall and increased cloud cover, temperatures are expected to remain below seasonal averages into next week, providing some relief from the summer heat. However, much of central and southern Texas, areas in the recovery phase from the catastrophic flooding, will face dangerous heat instead of renewed flooding.
Unfounded rumors linking an extreme weather event to human attempts at weather modification are again spreading on social media. It is not plausible that available weather modification techniques caused or influenced the July 4 flash flooding along the Guadalupe River in Texas.
This is false. It is not possible that cloud seeding generated the floods, according to experts, as the process can only produce limited precipitation using clouds that already exist.
The National Weather Service (NWS) warned areas near the Lampasas River of potential flooding after the river rose 33 feet in just 4 hours.
Much of the state is forecast to see consistently warmer weather, with highs in the upper 90s to low 100s in coming weeks.
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Officials are keeping a wary eye on river levels as some crews resume the search for people still missing after catastrophic flooding pummeled Texas this month.