Professor Slobodan Djordjevic, University of Exeter - High resolution modelling of urban flooding event. (rmets.org)
On the Irene front, it's worth reading a post by Benjamin Strauss, a scientist at Climate Central, on just how close New York City came — within one inch, by Strauss's reckoning — to costly urban flooding. (dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com)
They are: cloudburst events (2001, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011), prolonged droughts (1999 - 2002), historic river flooding (2010), tropical cyclones (1999, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011), severe urban flooding (2001, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011), heatwaves in spring (2006, 2007, 2010), snowmelt flooding (2005, 2007, 2010) and drought at sowing stage (2004, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011). (chimalaya.org)