Water Falls

“Global temperatures have made the atmosphere more waterlogged — providing fuel for wetter and more dangerous storms. In the past 85 years, The Post found, the amount of water vapor moving through Earth’s atmosphere has increased 12 percent. That increase is equivalent to 35 Mississippi Rivers flowing through the air every second.” And what goes up must come down. But it doesn’t come down everywhere. A new WaPo (Gift Article) investigation reveals where climate change has supercharged the movement of moisture through the skies. Deadly rivers in the sky.

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