Shocked, Shocked!! Global Warming Means Tropical Storms Hold, Then Dump More Rain!!

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Say it isn't so, NYT!!

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This week’s rainfall came after the region experienced an extremely wet spring, causing the region’s rivers to swell, and raising concerns that the upcoming storm may overtop levees in New Orleans. “If you look at the records, mostly it’s the water that kills most people,” Dr. Prein said.

In an email interview, David Gochis, a hydrometerological scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, said that flooding of the Mississippi River had left very little room to accommodate additional water, and that the storm surge would inhibit river water from flowing out to sea. “The ingredients are there for a real catastrophe if the flood control infrastructure simply gets overwhelmed,” he said.

In recent years, researchers have found that hurricanes have lingered longer, as Barry is expected to do, and dumped more rainfall — a sign of climate change, said Christina Patricola, a research scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and a co-author of a study that found that climate change is making tropical cyclones wetter. (Tropical cyclones include both hurricanes and tropical storms, which are hurricanes’ less speedier kin.)

Researchers have been studying the effects of climate change on tropical cyclones because those sorts of storms are driven by warm water. Water in the gulf is 0.5 to 2 degrees Celsius warmer, according to Dr. Prein, who said: “This is really increasing the likelihood of a hurricane to form in this basin. And it will increase the intensity of the hurricane as well.”

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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/11/climate/hurricane-tropical-storms.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fclimate&action=click&contentCollection=climate&region=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=sectionfront

[kat3rinamarquez]

1. It's really happening

Everything that we are experiencing right now is because of our own doing. Climate change is here.