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Devastating floods, intense heat waves.

It's been a summer of extreme weather.

Weather was seeing more of because of climate change.

And in fact, more than three-quarters of U.S. adults say they've been personally affected

by this kind of extreme weather in the past five years.

We're talking hurricanes, wildfires, and yeah, floods and heat waves.

This is according to a nationwide survey conducted earlier this year by NPR, the Robert Wood

Johnson Foundation and Harvard University.

But there's another part of this survey that really caught our attention here at the

indicator, and that is money.

A lot of people who responded to the survey said, their main problem with extreme weather,

it's expensive, and many suffer long-term financial problems because of it.

So today on the show, we're doing something a little bit special in turning things over

to NPR's daily science podcast, Shortwave.

After the break, Shortwave co-host Aaron Scott and Becky Herscher from NPR's Climate

Team, they explain what extreme weather means for your wallet.

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