19. Jan, 2012
The combined percent area of the country experiencing either extremely-wet or extremely-dry conditions during 2011 was record high at 58 percent.
The source article State of the Climate | National Overview | Annual 2011 was published January 19, 2011 by NOAA .
Tags: 2011, climate change impact, drought, dry, extreme preciptiation, 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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