Central Texas has seen about a 20% increase in the amount of rain falling in the heaviest events since 1970, a trend mirrored across the US and globally, according to Kristina Dahl, vice president for science at Climate Central, a non-profit, independent science organization.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott visited the all-girls retreat Camp Mystic late Saturday as the death toll from Friday's flash flooding of the Guadalupe River continued to rise through the weekend.

Images are now emerging of the victims of the devastating Texas floods including five girls who died after being swept away at Camp Mystic, a kids' summer camp