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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So all of the rain that used to fall in the West now goes to the East? You damn Yankees! We want our rain back!
Confirmation Bias.
There is one thing that climate change has affected. The brains of lefty journalists.
Rain is a lot wetter now than it used to be.
Less rain is bad, more rain is bad.
Umm, gosh, I guess the winter of ‘82 in the West never happened?
State St in Salt Lake had sandbags from North Temple down to 4th South to hold back the river. Never seen anything like that in the previous 10 years.
Dopes from Chicago starting with a conclusion and working backwards.
Climate Change - Is there anything it can’t do?
Experts blame Permian-Triassic Great Dying on dinosaurs.
Corrrection: winter of ‘83.
My bad. It was 4 decades ago, yuh know?
http://www.slcdocs.com/utilities/NewsEvents/news1999/news5281999.htm
Something must have happened during the missing 1981 to 1990 period that messed up the pre-determined agenda.
i’m 78....live in upstae ny...nothing has changd...the weather changes but the climate is constant.
“Climate Change - Is there anything it can’t do?”
Climate change - Is there anything it can’t be blamed for?
(You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it’s an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.
Rahm Emanuel)
If you don’t have a real crisis, create one.
B.S.!!!!
The same are that now is having the big rainstorms was recently affected by drought!!! These weather changes are normal!!!!
GIGO
Welp, what can you expect from an AP “journalist’.
Of course it’s “Climate Change”. What else could it be? Look, if you don’t know what caused it, mainly because you have no idea of what weather is really about, then the answer has to be “Climate Change”. That answer works for almost everything.
If Climate Change doesn’t work as the answer, then the answer is clearly Racism.
I live in southeastern Connecticut, just got about 3 1/2 inches last night and we’re still in a Stage 2 drought which means low interest loans.
Oh yeah, right…pure BS…
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