Texas type flooding to be more common

 New Yorker -  What can be said, and quite definitively, is that, in a warming world, flooding of the sort that occurred in Texas will be more common. The hotter the air, the more moisture it can hold. This is a recipe for fiercer downpours, and, indeed, a trend toward more intense rainfall has already been documented across the United States. 

According to the Fifth National Climate Assessment, published in 2023, the amount of rain falling on so-called “extreme precipitation days” has, during the past several decades, increased by twenty per cent in the region that includes Texas, by almost half in the Midwest, and by a staggering sixty per cent in the Northeast. “Climate change is forcing a reexamination of our concepts of rare events,” the report noted. A study released this week by a group of European researchers concluded that the Kerr County floods bear the fingerprints of warming. “Natural variability alone cannot explain the changes in precipitation associated with this very exceptional meteorological condition,” the researchers wrote.