“Climate change is going to result in a lot of these extreme events worsening,” said Dr Abby Frazier, a climatologist and assistant professor at Clark University, who added that compound events, where hazards overlap or occur in quick succession, are on the rise. The heat and the drought this year, served as a one-two punch, and will work together to produce greater dangers from fire.
Lol I live in the Sierra Nevada foothills in California. Yesterday we had a huge rainstorm and it was flooding shops in our downtown and the people were trying to sweep the water away the whole time because it was all basically mud. Even the water running down the streets was just brown, more so than I’ve ever seen. We haven’t had much rain this season and this is the height of rainy season. Been so dry here and with what little snow we had melting away already it’s going to be a fucked up spring/summer here for sure.
Fun fact: that mud is fertile topsoil being washed out to sea, leaving barren dirt. These sorts of floods is how areas become deserts.
yay
Hooray to the climate emergency!
That’s not fun at all! I want my money back!