# Severe flooding in Mexico City causes airport to close **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 11, 2025, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/severe-flooding-in-mexico-city-causes-airport-to-close/1021928 "2025-08-11T15:33:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2025, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/severe-flooding-in-mexico-city-causes-airport-to-close/1021928/1 "2025-08-11T15:33:06Z")
Last night, my sister @EllieNeo was supposed to catch a flight home from Mexico City, and left six hours early. It wasn’t enough to get her there on time, because the city was suffering severe flooding, and many roads were closed. They had to drive through some pretty high water. > **[Mexico City airport flood causes flights to nowhere and long diversions](https://www.businessinsider.com/mexico-city-floods-flights-to-nowhere-airport-flooded-2025-8)** > > Over 70 flights were diverted, including some back to their origins, and another 90 were canceled after Mexico City's airport was flooded. She’s now due to catch a Thursday flight. She’s okay, by the way. Gonna enjoy the extra time with her fiancé. ---
**Author:** ![dolphinboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dolphinboy/32/330_2.png) [@dolphinboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dolphinboy)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2025, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/severe-flooding-in-mexico-city-causes-airport-to-close/1021928/2 "2025-08-11T15:54:47Z")
It seems the news over the past few weeks has been dominated by wildfires and flooding across the US. I’m wondering if this is a case of a lot of slow news days, or if the weather has really become extreme lately due to global warming or for some other reason. I don’t remember a time when there was so much weather news to report, and I’m well over 70 years old. ---
**Author:** ![LouMa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/louma/32/19472_2.png) [@LouMa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouMa)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2025, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/severe-flooding-in-mexico-city-causes-airport-to-close/1021928/3 "2025-08-11T15:59:33Z")
They call it climate change. reply to dolphinboy ---
**Author:** ![dolphinboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dolphinboy/32/330_2.png) [@dolphinboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dolphinboy)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2025, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/severe-flooding-in-mexico-city-causes-airport-to-close/1021928/4 "2025-08-11T16:09:44Z")
Sure, call it climate change, but does it seem to you like it’s happening much quicker than they predicted, or is it just me? ---
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2025, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/severe-flooding-in-mexico-city-causes-airport-to-close/1021928/5 "2025-08-11T16:16:53Z")
I think a lot if it is breathless, sensationalist media pumping up “weather” to generate clicks. Since when were people “in danger” of getting rained on? Then again, with more people in more areas and everyone carrying a phone with a high-quality camera with easily uploaded video shared to millions within hours, that could play a role, too. I suspect climate change is causing more frequent severe events, and then you add-in the two above mentioned points, and yeah, it seems like a lot of crazy weather happens now. I will wait, tho, for someone familiar with the data to assign it fully to climate change - I mean, isn’t Mexico City in an ancient lakebed after all? ---
**Author:** ![LouMa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/louma/32/19472_2.png) [@LouMa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouMa)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2025, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/severe-flooding-in-mexico-city-causes-airport-to-close/1021928/6 "2025-08-11T16:25:22Z")
reply to dolphinboy That is difficult to say. On the one hand, there is climate change, and on the other, the media are responding more frequently because disasters always make for good stories. What’s more, it’s currently the “silly season,” at least in Europe, and the media are grateful for any story they can get their hands on. It’s difficult to gain an objective perspective on something like this. ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2025, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/severe-flooding-in-mexico-city-causes-airport-to-close/1021928/7 "2025-08-11T16:27:01Z")
> [@snowthx](#): > > I mean, isn’t Mexico City in an ancient lakebed after all? Oh, yes. In fact, the story of how Mexico City was founded can be found in the country’s flag. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/l-IwfKKLhLM/hqdefault.jpg "Three Caballeros - Mexico") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-IwfKKLhLM) ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2025, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/severe-flooding-in-mexico-city-causes-airport-to-close/1021928/8 "2025-08-11T17:37:19Z")
> [@dolphinboy](#): > > Sure, call it climate change, but does it seem to you like it’s happening much quicker than they predicted, or is it just me? Years ago, I heard a climatologist bemoaning the fact that “global warming” had caught on as the shorthand reference for the phenonemon, because while technically accurate on a macro scale, it didn’t convey the particulars of how people would experience the change. He suggested that it would have been better to call it “global weirding” because of how longstanding patterns would be disrupted. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2025, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/severe-flooding-in-mexico-city-causes-airport-to-close/1021928/9 "2025-08-12T16:25:15Z")
> [@ekedolphin](#): > > They had to drive through some pretty high water. I’m glad they’re OK; but this is generally a very bad idea. Better to miss the plane than to miss the rest of your life. > [@Cervaise](#): > > He suggested that it would have been better to call it “global weirding” because of how longstanding patterns would be disrupted. I’ve heard that term with some frequency and often use it myself.