Posted on 08/09/2022 1:36:32 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
The towering clouds, the thundering claps, the sudden, torrential downpours: The dramatic summer thunderstorms of the Plains states etch themselves into the memory of anyone who experiences them.
But a new study finds that climate change is likely to affect their flavor. By the end of the century, the commonplace, intense storms that deliver 50 to 90 percent of the southern Plains states’ annual water are likely to occur a little less frequently, while more thunderstorm days both weak and strong will drench the East and Northeast.
Climate scientists have gotten better and better at “downscaling” the big models or linking them up with fine-scale regional models, revealing how global climate change’s impacts will play out for even small events like hail or thunderstorms.
Using those new methods, a 2017 study pointed out the pattern: High, dry Rockies air could cut off storm formation in some parts of the Plains states, even with plenty of warm, energetic, damp air near the surface, while zones to the East would be ripe for more storms.
The new study pushes the spatial and seasonal subtlety of those projections even further, thanks to ever-increasing computing power. “This is really building the case for this change,” says Robert Jeffrey Trapp, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champagne. It’s not a wholesale loss, he emphasizes. “There will still be thunderstorms and tornadoes in Oklahoma in 2100. But there may be less.”
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Climate Change is a bullshit scam.
Lying Democrat Kiddie Rapers.
No hurricanes yet off the east coast. Unprecedented! Here we are 2.5 months into hurricane season and nada. Not even a TS. This is the midpoint of the season to boot.
The uneducated don’t know the Sahara was once green and very lush.
Sad to see NG pushing this BS. Like Scientific American there was a time when they were a respected publication. Now they are just rags pushing leftist propaganda.
Yep. Them were the good ol' days!
And only a media-mind-numbed liberal would believe that they can change or control that by throwing money and regulations/restrictions at it.
Geography is what plays the big role in thunderstorm development and tracking, not “climate change”.
In Richard Dana’s book, Two Years Before the Mast, he describes how the weather in California had changed within living memory (this was in the 1830s). California used to get what we’d call hurricanes from the south which threatened ships for much of the California coast, which had little in the way of good natural harbors between San Diego and San Francisco.
Climate can change and has changed and will change in the future. People cope.
are likely to occur
These dimwits are so rock-solid sure of their pronouncements, aren't they?
Anybody who takes anything that the Nat Geo says with more than a grain of salt is just as stupid as they are. Remember this is the magazine that featured a trans kid on their cover.
Because it didn’t produce weather they could freak out about. Imagine that.
Good. I hope they show up here in Pennsylvania. We could use the rain.
Those of us who live in the Charleston SC area know that first hand. Pick up a scoop of soil. Look at it and you will see tons of small seashells. In prehistoric times we were under the sea. One has to go an hour and a half north to find what the beach was then. It’s called the sand hills for those who want to search further.
I cordially invite all who want to make us pay for man made global warming to please shove the entire mess up their rectums with Ben Gay, broken glass, lemon juice, and brake fluid. Sorry ladies, that is the nice version.
I think the gov’t has changed the frost dates (first/last). My number of growing days has increased acc to their updated calculations
The Ubangis were awesome. I mean, my uncle told me they were.
Better start filling weather maps entirely with shades of red, since all weather conditions, even blizzards, can only result from anthropogenic climate change.
Idiocy like this is why I stopped my subscription to NG.
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