Adding to the bleak forecasts for the US is a National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) research paper recently published in Nature Climate Change, which finds that the occurence of extreme summertime rainfall could increase by 400% in parts of the country.
The NCAR scientists also found a potential increase in the intensity of individual extreme rainfall events of 70% in some areas.
Andreas Prein, lead author of the study and NCAR scientist, said “These are huge increases. Imagine the most intense thunderstorm you typically experience in a single season. Our study finds that, in the future, parts of the U.S. could expect to experience five of those storms in a season, each with an intensity as strong or stronger than current storms.”
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