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Why megastorms will become more common, according to science

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Tuesday, November 8, 2022

In August of this year, The New York Times ran a feature story titled “The Coming California Megastorm.”

Under future climate change, atmospheric rivers hitting the West Coast are likely to “shift from being ‘mostly or primarily beneficial’ to ‘mostly or primarily hazardous,’” according to a study published in 2020 in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.

Flood damage slide in the Columbia River Gorge

In August of this year, The New York Times ran a feature story titled “The Coming California Megastorm.”

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