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Climate change made recent flooding in Midwest, South more intense, report finds

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Analysis from World Weather Attribution , a climate science group, found that human-caused global warming made the deadly storms 9% heavier.

The storms swept across the Midwest and South , dumping record amounts of rain across Kentucky , Tennessee , Arkansas , and other states.

The researchers worry about the impact of the National Weather Service .

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