New research suggests climate change increases the likelihood of a massive California "megaflood," akin to the Great Flood of 1862. That disaster, brought on by more than 40 days of constant rain ...

The Great Flood of 1862 that took place primarily in the Lehigh Valley that spring would take hundreds of lives and destroyed many businesses. Early in the spring of 1862 things were looking ...

For well over a century, the Great Flood of 1862 has remained among California’s worst natural disasters — a megastorm that’s been used as a benchmark for state emergency planners and ...

Even today, as California struggles with severe drought, global warming has doubled the likelihood that weather conditions will unleash a deluge as devastating as the Great Flood of 1862 ...

The Great Flood of 1862 came after 30 consecutive days of rain that poured 10 feet (3m) of rain and snow on California over a period of 43 days. Such was the power of the rainfall that it changed ...

WATCH: Calif. climate migrant family settles in Vermont Long before climate change, California’s Great Flood of 1862 stretched up to 300 miles long and 60 miles across. According to the study ...

"It's kind of like a big earthquake," Swain says. "It's eventually going to happen." The Great Flood of 1862 was fueled by a large snowpack and a series of atmospheric rivers — rivers of dense ...

The storm is based on weather patterns from the state’s “Great Flood of 1862.” An ARkStorm—named for an atmospheric river thought of as a 1-in-1,000-year event—was developed as a weather ...

The last megastorm to hit the West Coast was the Great Flood of 1862. It temporarily turned much of the Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys into a giant inland sea, 300 miles long. Gallegos is in ...