(TLP:CLEAR) Supplemental General Security & Resilience Highlights – May 22, 2025

The following posts are useful for general awareness of current physical security threats, natural disaster resilience, preparedness resources, mitigation guidance, and other security-related news or updates. These resources have been curated by the WaterISAC analyst team as items of broad relevance and benefit that do not need supplemental analysis at this time.

Natural Hazards/Climate Change

• Daily threat of severe storms to extend into Memorial Day weekend – AccuWeather
• Residents dig out after severe weather, tornados killed at least 27. Here’s what to know – CBS News
• Heavier Rainfall Rates in U.S. Cities – Climate Central
• A nor’easter is about to hit the Northeast in May. That’s very unusual. – Washington Post
• So-called ‘100-year floods’ are happening more often – Yale Climate Connections
• NSW is copping rain and flooding while parts of Australia are in drought. What’s going on? – Conversation
• Flood risk increasing in Pacific Northwest – Virginia Tech
• How climate change contributed to the Los Angeles fires – Yale Climate Connections
• US will stop tracking the costs of extreme weather fueled by climate change – AP

Operational Resilience

• Copper Thieves Strike Again. And Again and Again. – Security Management Magazine
• Cargo thieves are attacking the U.S. supply chain at alarming rates – CNBC News
• GRIT remaps the world’s rivers, branching into the unknown to aid global flood modelling – Smart Water Magazine
• Where local forecast offices no longer monitor weather around-the-clock – Washington Post
• Summer demand is soaring and inverter-based resources are a ‘key risk’: NERC – Utility Dive
• As the Rio Grande runs dry, South Texas leaders look to new water supplies to sustain growth – Texas Tribune
• WMO issues guidelines on verification of hydrological forecasts – Smart Water Magazine
• EPA announces $30 million in grant funding to strengthen rural water systems – Smart Water Magazine
• NOAA unveils powerful convergence of AI and science with revolutionary Next-Generation Fire System technology – NOAA
• Helping the Grid Keep Pace with a Power-Hungry Economy – National Academies

Extremism/Terrorism

• Fertility clinic bombing spotlights ‘nihilistic’ violent extremism wave – Washington Post
• Two Israeli Embassy staffers shot and killed outside Jewish Museum in DC – CNN
• Neo-Nazi extremists guilty of planning terror attack on mosque – Sky News
• Third suspect arrested over fires at properties linked to UK prime minister – ABC News
• Toronto man pleads guilty to terrorism charges, including financing ISIS – CBC
• Combat sport clubs used to boost recruitment for white nationalist hate group, report says – CBS News
• ISIS Cases in the U.S. – NCITE