Ohio River in Louisville could rise to highest level in 7 years
www.wlky.com

... With rain falling almost non-stop through Sunday, flooding is a major concern for the WLKY region.

Flood warnings and watches are in effect and area rivers, creeks and streams will likely overflow their banks, with the Ohio River expected to climb into moderate flood stage.

As of Wednesday afternoon, the National Water Prediction Service projects the Ohio River at the McAlpine Upper, which is a gauge location in Louisville, will crest around 33.7 feet.

If it reaches that, that'll be the highest level it's been since 2018.

Moving forward, what we will really have to keep an eye on is how much rain not only falls over our area, but also how much rain Indiana and Ohio receive over the next couple days as all that water drains into the Ohio River. ...

Pink Floyd - Us And Them (Richard Wright Demo)
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Tornadoes of April 3, 1974
www.weather.gov

Those tornadoes ripped through Louisville. ...

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April 3, 1974
Counties: Jefferson KY, Oldham
F-scale: F4
Deaths:
Injuries:
Path width: 200 yards
Path length:
Time: 3:37pm
Grazulis narrative: Moved northeast from the Kentucky State Fairgrounds in Louisville. Dozens of buildings and hundreds of trees were destroyed in Louisville. About a dozen expensive homes were destroyed in affluent suburbs of northeast Louisville.

About 425 homes were destroyed in Jefferson County, and 25 were damaged in Oldham County. Losses on one Oldham County farm amounted to $200,000....

2024: An active year of U.S. billion-dollar weather and climate disasters (January 2025)
www.climate.gov

... NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) has updated its 2024 Billion-dollar disaster analysis. In 2024, there were 27 individual weather and climate disasters with at least $1 billion in damages, trailing only the record-setting 28 events analyzed in 2023. These disasters caused at least 568 direct or indirect fatalities, which is the eighth-highest for these billion-dollar disasters over the last 45 years (1980-2024). The cost was approximately $182.7 billion.

This total places 2024 as the fourth-costliest on record, trailing 2017 ($395.9 billion), 2005 ($268.5 billion) and 2022 ($183.6 billion). Adding the 27 events of 2024 to the record that begins in 1980, the U.S. has sustained 403 weather and climate disasters for which the individual damage costs reached or exceeded $1 billion. The cumulative cost for these 403 events exceeds $2.915 trillion.

Before presenting the analysis of 2024, here are a few notes for additional context. This research is a quantification of the weather and climate disasters that in 2024 led to more than $1 billion in collective damages for each event, and all prior-year cost estimates are adjusted for inflation to 2024 dollars using the Consumer Price Index. Additionally, these cost totals for 2024 are based on analysis through January 10th, 2025, and may rise an additional several billion dollars, as new data become available.

This analysis is conservative, as it excludes events with less than $1 billion in damages in 2024 dollars.

However, it does include 57 events since 1980 that were originally below the billion-dollar threshold but are now above $1 billion in 2024 dollars. ...

Of couse, I suspect you may congradulate the Trump admin for suppressing (via layoffs) that sort of data in the fute?

NOAA forecasts extraordinarily busy Atlantic hurricane season
www.axios.com

These preliminary forecasts seem to be non-NOAA.

First Major 2025 Hurricane Season Outlook Released: Slightly Above Average Activity Expected
weather.com

... The team at Colorado State University said the season will be somewhat more busy than average due to the lack of El Nio. ...