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Climate change will make Colorado's millennial rainstorm a lot more common
2013-10-24 21:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Quartz: The rainfall that caused massive flooding in Colorado last month was a once-in-a-millennium event, according to a recent study (pdf). And climate change is making those kinds of extreme weather events more common. The impressively named Hydrometeorological Design Studies Center, a division of the National Weather Service, has concluded with greater than 90% certainty that the rainfall was millennial in nature. Here`s the chart for one rain gauge in Boulder, Colorado, that was inundated over seven...
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