Figure 2.17: Percent changes in the annual amount of precipitation falling in very heavy events, defined as the heaviest 1 % of all daily events from 1901 to 2012 for each region. (nca2014.globalchange.gov)
While there has been a recent increase in the number of landfalling US hurricanes, the increase in tropical cyclone - associated heavy events is much higher than would be expected from the pre-1994 association between the two, indicating that the upward trend in heavy precipitation events is due to an increase in the number of heavy precipitation events per system. (climatesignals.org)
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