that caused power outages, flooding, levee breaks, washouts and landslides. At least 20 people died.
Leung used regional scale computer simulations to predict what the worst of the western winter storms will be like between 2040 and 2070 in a scenario where carbon emissions have run amok. She looked at total precipitation, how concentrated peak raining and snowing would be and the area that gets hit. All three factors grow for the West in general.
Overall precipitation is a bit lessened from adding all the factors, because just as the peak rainfall grows the rainfall on the edges of the storms is predicted to weaken, according to the study. "The concepts and impacts of how precipitation features are likely to change are well quantified and well explained," said David Gochis, an expert in how water affects the weather at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, who wasn't part of the study.
NatureClimate I thought they were whining about droughts?
NatureClimate not a sparrow shall but climate change will be blamed.