20. Aug, 2011
This summer has seen extremes for lack of rainfall over the southern plains and daily rainfall totals. The featured chart is of one minute interval data from New York City’s JFK Airport showing a rainfall total of 7.8 inches on Sunday.
The source article JFK's Record Rainfall was published August 16, 2011 by Iowa State University Department of Agronomy .
Tags: 2011, heavey precipitation, heavy precipitation events, New York, New York City, USA
Many events are linked to climate change by virtue of fitting a long-term trend. For example, the record-breaking “once in one thousand years” rains that drove the recent Nashville flood is part of the long-term trend of increasing heavy precipitation events in the Southeastern United States that has been fully documented and firmly attributed to climate change. While one cannot say with certainly that event was "caused" by climate change, one can and should say it is linked to climate change.
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