Scientists tie climate change to increase in severity of last week's storm

Heavy winter storms aren't unusual in California, but climate change made last week's rain and snow more intense

Show Notes

2/2/2021 — As we all know, it’s not unusual for the rainy season to start out relatively, well, un-rainy, and then for the state to get hit with a big storm — though not quite like this one. “This storm definitely has more water in it because of climate change,” explained Michael Wehner, a senior scientist who studies extreme weather events and their relationship to climate change at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. According to research from Wehner, climate change is driving processes that make winter storms drop more precipitation than has historically been the case in NorCal. 

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