Climate Change Is Driving Extreme Rainfall

Climate Change Is Driving Extreme Rainfall

Warmer air increases evaporation, which means that our atmosphere contains an increasing amount of water vapor for storms to sweep up and turn into rain or snow. Just as drier areas are likely to get drier with rising global temperatures, those areas of the world that have historically trended toward heavy precipitation will only get wetter. Heavy rainfall and flash flooding in the Northeast during July 2023 caused tens of millions of dollars, i…

Asia warming twice as fast than global average: WMO Report

Rapid glacier melt in Himalayas can affect water security of a quarter of the world’s population Asia is experiencing more extreme weather events as it is warming nearly twice as fast than the global average, found a new report by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). The warming trend between 1991–2024 was almost double that during the 1961–1990 period. In India, warming led to prolonged and intense heatwaves last year, leading to more t…