Extreme rainfall—a long-standing hypothesis on temperature dependence may finally be settled

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Flash floods resulting from extreme rainfall pose a major risk to people and infrastructure, especially in urban areas. Higher temperatures due to global climate change affect continuous rainfall and short rain showers in somewhat equal measure. However, if both types of precipitation occur at the same time, as is typical for thunderstorm cloud clusters, the amount of precipitation increases more strongly with increasing temperature.   Click here to read the story.   Click the following link for more information on Climate and Severe Weather.