The odd thing about
this particular rain storm is that it just does not feel right!
Not exact matches
But on the first morning of the
storm, when the
rain and flooding were most intense, I did actually laugh out loud when I learned via Facebook that the Houston Chronicle had chosen that
particular day to publish a school food opinion piece I'd submitted a few weeks before.
In
particular, Trenberth argues that hurricanes and other
storms will
rain more today because the warmer atmosphere carries more moisture.
This
particular excerpt is from a tale of Steve O'Shea, who continues to battle the seas,
rain or
storm, to capture this notoriously elusive creature.
Post
storm, the sky still leaden and the streets reeking of that just -
rained - earth smell so
particular to South Africa, we watched hundreds of swallows duck and dive in a display of abandon, on the banks of Lake Victoria (not that Lake Victoria, another one, but more about that later).
While it is true that any one
particular storm or weather event can not be attributed to climate change alone, unusual
rain such as this is precisely the type of «global weirding» that climate scientists have predicted would occur as the climate warmed.