As US climate warms, some parts get drier, some get rainier - Entrepreneur Generations

Change in annual average precipitation, in inches, over the past 30 years compared to the 20th century overall. New York Times map; click the image to enlarge it.

Over the past decades, the U.S. has seen increasingly extreme weather. In the east, that tends to come in the form of flooding and storms; in the west, droughts and wildfires. 

"The map above, created using data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, shows the Eastern half of the country has gotten more rain, on average, over the last 30 years than it did during the 20th century, while precipitation has decreased in the West. (Thirty-year averages are often used by scientists to glean big-picture climate trends from temperature and precipitation data that varies substantially year-to-year.),"  Aatish Bhatia and Nadja Popovich report for The New York Times. "It’s not yet clear whether these changes in precipitation are a permanent feature of our warming climate, or whether they reflect long-term weather variability. But they are largely consistent with predictions from climate models, which expect to see more precipitation overall as the world warms, with big regional differences. Broadly: Wet places get wetter and dry places get drier."

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