About 100,000 thunderstorms rumble across the United States each year, but just 10% intensify into a severe thunderstorm, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
The storm, which hit the New York area in October, 2012, unlocked billions of dollars in resilience spending, with hurricanes, rather than heat waves or cloudbursts, as the focus.
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Eric Klinenberg,
New Yorker,
6 Apr. 2026
The whole experience tasted of the sea and the end of summer, punctuated by soft little cloudbursts on the palate.
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