The recent onslaughts of precipitation, capping 4 years of prolonged drought, serve as a reminder of weather extremes California and other parts of the US now face in an era of human-induced climate change, experts say.
soaked California on Tuesday, March 14, bringing another deluge of rain to the already-saturated state, while a Nor’easter swirling over New York and New England prompted emergency orders and closed roads.
In anticipation of the “atmospheric river” – an airborne current of dense, tropical moisture from the Pacific streaming over the landscape – emergency crews filled sandbags and patrolled levees and riverbanks around the clock. Some 21,000 people in the flood zone remained under evacuation orders or warnings, and other rivers were flooding tracts of farmland elsewhere in the county, officials said.
The recent onslaughts of precipitation, capping four years of prolonged drought, heat waves, and heightened wildfire activity, serve as a reminder of weather extremes California and other parts of the US now face in an era of human-induced climate change, experts say.
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