COSEE Ocean Systems: News
Extreme weather linked to warming
Description: A recent report claims that global warming will spawn more extreme weather events such as last March's rains in New England and big snowstorms like the so-called "Snowmageddon" that paralyzed the mid-Atlantic region last winter. With every degree Fahrenheit increase in air temperature, the atmosphere can hold 4 percent more water vapor. A storm developing in a region with more water vapor to hold onto has more moisture to use as rain or snow. [Source: Cape Cod Times]
URL: http://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100917/NEWS/9170323/-1/NEWSMAP
Availability: Full Text
Source: Cape Cod Times
Publish Date: 9/17/2010
Reading Level: Basic
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