Detroit received 4.57 inches of rain in just a few hours on Monday, breaking its record for that date and coming in second place for the all-time wettest calendar day, behind a 4.74 inch deluge in July of 1925.
In less than 24 hours, 13.27 inches of rain had fallen at Long Island MacArthur Airport in Islip, in Suffolk County, shattering a daily rainfall record in the state of New York. … On Wednesday morning, during a single hour — from 5 to 6 — five inches of rain soaked the earth.
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An extreme deluge nearly unprecedented in Baltimore history swamped the city in flood waters that closed multiple expressways on Tuesday afternoon. Officially, 6.30″ of rain fell at the Baltimore Airport on Tuesday. This was their second wettest calendar day in history, behind only the 7.62″ that fell on August 23, 1933 during the Chesapeake-Potomac Hurricane.
Monday’s rains meant that four of Detroit’s top ten rainiest days since 1874 have occurred in the past seventeen years. Yesterday’s rains in Baltimore means that three of Baltimore’s top ten rainiest days since 1871 have occurred during the past five years, and four of the top ten rainiest days have occurred in the past 15 years.
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If these numbers make you suspect that record heavy rains may be occurring more frequently in these cities due to a changing climate, then you’re in good company.
The U.S. National Climate Assessment, issued every four years by NOAA, is an effort by more than 300 U.S. scientists to assess how the climate is changing in the U.S. The just-released 2014 report said: “Heavy downpours are increasing nationally, especially over the last three to five decades. Largest increases are in the Midwest and Northeast.
Just shut down the oilsands .. And all world climate problems will be solved.
Or more Teslas for everyone.
Or no more babies unless UN approved.
More solar heated e-caves, too !
Complex problems have simple easy-to-understand wrong solutions !
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The gorilla is too big. Let it have its way.
Yes, many gorillas produce much heat & exhaust, but each has been warming gorilla free for 10’s of thousands of years, too ..
Related article on energy & its cost .. mixing my unique German and Canadian perspective:
One of my interests is energy, the price of energy, renewable energy, nuclear energy but especially solar energy.
Not sure why, but perhaps because I grew up as a son of an HVAC engineer obsessed with turning off lights in every unused room, or because we were discussing various energy options at the dinner table in my teens, or because Germans have always been an inventive lot, or perhaps because I studied under a professor specializing in nuclear energy in my early university years at the Airforce Academy and/or because I used to work for 2 years part-time at the nuclear radiation research society near Munich to top off my then very meager living standards.
The Beyer household, in about 2003, installed the first solar thermal system in Canmore, AB – on our roof. I found it fascinating to have 60 degree hot free water even on a -20 day outside. The two roof mounted solar thermal panels used a glycol based loop that fed into a basement based heat exchanger that would then heat a 3rd water tank.
To this day I actively engage in energy related issues. More at http://hubs.ly/y04mqX0