Record-breaking rainfall that caused flash flooding in the St. Louis area Tuesday morning, leaving cars trapped on streets, causing road closures and at least one death, is not just a freak occurrence: it’s a manifestation of human-caused climate change.
around the region.
That kind of saturation has been made more likely because warmer air holds more water and causes more water to evaporate, and it’s happening more frequently as a result.“In recent years, a larger percentage of precipitation has come in the form of intense single-day events,”. “Nine of the top 10 years for extreme one-day precipitation events have occurred since 1996.
So while the Southwest suffers through a 20-year megadrought — the driest two decades in the region in at least 1,200 years — it has alsoin the heaviest precipitation events between 1956 and 2016, according to the U.S. Global Change Research Program. Other regions are seeing more dramatic storms and experiencing more frequent and severe flooding. The Midwest has 42% more heavy precipitation events per year than it did 60 years ago, and the Northeast is seeing 55% more.its previous one-day record of 6.85 inches, according to the National Weather Service.Part of Interstate 70 flooded, necessitating rescues of stranded residents and drivers.
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