JOANNA GAGIS / NJ SPOTLIGHT NEWS – As the country faces twice the number of flash floods this July than in years past, a new tool that was designed to help predict future rainfall has been delayed by the Trump administration.

Called Atlas 15, the research project was being developed by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in order to provide regional planners and civil engineers a clearer assessment of how a warming climate will impact rain amounts like those that have rocked New Jersey and elsewhere this summer …