continue to get more extreme including flooding both in the form of precipitation and storm surge drought and extreme heat there will be more destructive hurricanes both in the form of wind strength and in the amount of rain the storm system can hold which will be at its worst when the storms are slowmoving over land like when hurricane harvey dumped 50 inches of rain in some parts of the houston area in 2017 duffy said we do as scientists need to be clear that it isnt necessarily climate change thats causing these problems raymond said but its definitely making them worse