Author: Kyle Plantz / Source: Science News

Half of the world’s annual rain and snow falls on the year’s 12 wettest days. As climate change brings more intense downpours, the same amount of precipitation could take just 11 days by the end of the century, scientists report online November 4 in Geophysical Research Letters.
“Climate scientists generally have this notion that precipitation falls unevenly in time,” says climate scientist Angeline Pendergrass of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo.
She wanted to quantify that unevenness. So Pendergrass and colleague Reto Knutti of the Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science at ETH Zurich looked at daily precipitation data…The post Half the world’s annual rain falls in just 12 days appeared first on FeedBox.