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There’s expected to be a significant future increase in the occurrence of slow-moving intense rainstorms across Europe, maybe 14 times more frequent across land by the end of the century. Such slow-moving storms have the potential for very high precipitation accumulations, with devastating impacts, as now seen in Germany and Belgium. But we have a problem too. From Maine to West Virginia, the Northeast has seen a larger increase in extreme precipitation than anywhere else in the U.S. These heavy rain and snow events, defined as a day with about two inches of precipitation or more, have been 53% higher in the Northeast since 1996.
Story sources: Newcastle University and Dartmouth College
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