Irma, and the Rise of Extreme Rain
- 7 years ago
Irma, and the Rise of Extreme Rain
Global surface temperatures, relative to 1951-1980 average
U. S. weather stations experiencing an extreme rainstorm
Extreme rainstorms are up more than a third since the early 1980s, according to
research by Kenneth Kunkel of the North Carolina Institute for Climate Studies.
The greater moisture of warm air explains why your skin doesn’t get as dry in the summer
and why the forests of the sweltering Amazon get a lot more precipitation than northern Canada’s forests.
About 40 years ago, the earth’s surface temperatures began to break out of their recent historical range and just kept climbing.
It’s a count of storms that would ordinarily occur only once every several years — the sort of storms that stretch a community’s capacity to cope
Global surface temperatures, relative to 1951-1980 average
U. S. weather stations experiencing an extreme rainstorm
Extreme rainstorms are up more than a third since the early 1980s, according to
research by Kenneth Kunkel of the North Carolina Institute for Climate Studies.
The greater moisture of warm air explains why your skin doesn’t get as dry in the summer
and why the forests of the sweltering Amazon get a lot more precipitation than northern Canada’s forests.
About 40 years ago, the earth’s surface temperatures began to break out of their recent historical range and just kept climbing.
It’s a count of storms that would ordinarily occur only once every several years — the sort of storms that stretch a community’s capacity to cope