Yet More Extreme Weather Events

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Sunday August 07, 2016 · 9:56 PM PDT

2016/08/07 · 21:56

Global temperature map for June 2016 from the National Centers for Environmental Information — Weather isn't what it used to be. Lately it's been getting downright nasty about it.

Via the BBC, Macedonia storm: Deadly freak floods hit Skopje. Odds are you heard little about it in the USA what with it being over the weekend, the Olympics are in progress, Trump is still running his mouth, etc. (And most Americans probably don’t know where Macedonia is anyway...) It’s not such a small thing if you live in Skopje though.

At least 21 people have died in floods that hit the Macedonian capital, Skopje, following torrential rain.

The victims' bodies were found on Sunday morning after the storm passed. Several people are still missing.

Some of the victims drowned in their cars. Parts of the city's ring road were swept away in the floods, dragging cars into nearby fields.

Three-and-a-half inches (93mm) of rain fell in Skopje in the storm - more than the average for the whole of August.

The water level reached as high as five feet (1.5 metres) in some of the affected areas, reports said.

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One of the things that goes with a warmer atmosphere is more water in that atmosphere, meaning more rain. Sometimes lots more rain. As per June 27: West Virginia flood was ‘one in a thousand year event,’ Weather Service says; more heavy rain forecast. According to the Washington Post,

Reuters reported that the state received, in a single day, one-quarter of its yearly rainfall.

In Greenbrier County, in excess of 10 inches fell and as much as seven inches fell in three hours.

The flooding arose from a nasty complex of storms that originally developed near Chicago late Wednesday. It formed on the edge of a bulging heat dome centered over Texas, that had produced record heat in the Southern California desert.

For a hoax, Climate Change sure seems to be making a pretty big impression. Those thousand year events seem to be piling up lately.

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