Posted on 10/14/2022 10:10:16 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
As heavy rains and wind pound Massachusetts and forecasters warn of potential flooding, power outages, and downed trees, new research affirms something many have long suspected: Ordinary rain storms are getting more intense in the eastern United States.
The study, published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters this week, links the findings to the climate crisis. The authors, researchers at Northwestern University, analyzed rainfall data from some 1,700 weather stations across the US. They found that in the swath of the US east of the Rocky Mountains, rainstorms dropped about 5 percent more water on average in the years 1991 to 2020 than they did 1951 to 1980. The increase was even stronger in New England, where storms brought up to 6 percent more rain, the authors say.
Researchers have repeatedly confirmed climate models’ predictions of wetter, more powerful extreme rain events like hurricanes, caused by warmer air, which can hold more moisture. The new study’s authors wanted to see if mundane rain events are getting wetter, too.
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Thanks to climate change, there is no longer a 400-feet thick sheet of ice where I live north of Seattle.
“They say it never rains in California”
Mamas and the Papas
But when it pours, man it pours.
Wow what a load of BS.
Bull. The research is inconclusive at best.
Another attempt by journalism to claim "the science is settled".
And we can enjoy the Red Rocks of Sedona and ski on mountains.
It's called weather . The next thing you know, researchers will tell you that the rainwater is now wetter (balderdash !)
Researchers are paid to find anomalies
No more anomalies = no more paid researchers
Over the last few years, researchers have even given names to storms and hurricanes to identify and point out these anomalies
How anthropomorphic !
Good point! They have been misusing the word 'climate'. The correct use of the term 'climate change' would mean, for example, a polar climate becoming a tropical climate.
“Umm, gosh, I guess the winter of ‘82 in the West never happened?”
2013 Colorado Front Range. 600 year flood. People and property got washed away.
What happened to the data from 1981 to 1990?
Funny how they just skip over little things like that.
Strange, because I live in the Northeast, and it has been water restrictions and droughts all summer long - wish they would make up there mind.
All weather is local. Like the old timey men say, “if you don’t like the weather, wait 150 million years.”
Utter garbage.
AGWT is unfalsifiable. All observations confirm it at the 100% confidence level. Rain, drought, snow, hurricane, sunshine, cloudy weather, freezing weather, heat and humidity. All are the result of Global Warming.
Carbon, the miracle element. Is there anything it cannot do?
We must end climate change, now!
BS
That sounds like it could be racist.
And I'm amused when I see a Cat 5 that lasted an hour...or even less...
Pretty soon they'll change the numbers...like they did with the BP numbers etc etc...
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