Not exact matches
The researchers also looked at other
extreme events, like the southeast Australian drought of 2006 and the
rain events that led to widespread flooding in Queensland in 2010, to see whether they would occur
more often as global temperatures increased.
What goes up, must come down and,
more and
more, that water vapor is coming down in
extreme precipitation
events — defined in North America as
more than 100 millimeters of rainfall (or the equivalent in snow or freezing
rain) falling in 24 hours — according to new research also published February 17 in Nature that examines such
events in the Northern Hemisphere.
Unprecedented summer warmth and flooding, forest fires, drought and torrential
rain —
extreme weather
events are occurring
more and
more often, but now an international team of climate scientists has found a connection between many
extreme weather
events and the impact climate change is having on the jet stream.
The first thorough federal review of research on how global warming may affect
extreme climate
events in North America forecasts
more drenching
rains, parching droughts (especially in the Southwest), intense heat waves and stronger hurricanes if long - lived greenhouse gases continue building in the atmosphere.
Droughts will be worse and
extreme rain events will be
more frequent or
more damaging.
Here is an excerpt of the research paper, «When It
Rains It Pours», from Environment America, showing a statistically significant spike in flash flooding and other
extreme precipitation
events since 1948: «Weather records show that storms with
extreme precipitation have become
more frequent over the last 60 years.
Global warming is causing
more intense
rain and snowstorms in the United States, and making
extreme events such as the January 2016 snow storm that crippled most of the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast
more likely.