Weather whiplash: Summer lurches from drought to flood

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Parts of the world are lurching from drought to deluge during a summer of extreme weather whiplash. Scientists suspect climate change is at work in two different ways.

“So we really have had a lot of whiplash,” said Kentucky’s interim climatologist Megan Schargorodski. “It is really difficult to emotionally go through all of these extremes and get through it and figure out how to be resilient through the disaster after disaster that we see.”In just two weeks in late July and early August, the U.S.

Weather whiplash, “where all of a sudden it changes to the opposite” extreme, is becoming more noticeable because it’s so strange, said climate scientist Jennifer Francis of the Woodwell Climate Research Center in Falmouth, Massachusetts. She is in the middle of a study of whiplash events. Think of the air as a giant sponge, said UCLA and Nature Conservancy climate scientist Daniel Swain. It soaks up more water from parched ground like a sponge “which is why we’re seeing worse droughts in some places,” he said. Then when a weather system travels further, juicy with that extra water, it has more to dump, causing downpours.

When the ground is so hard from drought, water doesn’t seep in as much and runs off faster in flood, Francis and others said.

 

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