{"id":57918,"date":"2020-09-01T16:02:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-01T13:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/record-setting-rain-and-heat-this-is-the-new-normal\/"},"modified":"2020-09-01T16:02:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-01T13:02:00","slug":"record-setting-rain-and-heat-this-is-the-new-normal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/record-setting-rain-and-heat-this-is-the-new-normal\/","title":{"rendered":"#Record-setting rain and heat? This is the new normal"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Record-setting rain and heat? This is the new normal<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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I’m the director of the North Carolina Climate Office, which is the go-to source for expertise in North Carolina’s climate. But if you call me to ask if there’s a downpour on the way, I probably won’t know the answer off the top of my head. That may seem odd, but it’s because I’m mostly thinking about the climate\u2014and weather is something a little different.<\/p>\n

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We climate experts all have our favorite analogies for the difference between weather and climate. Weather\u2014or the short-term events a place experiences\u2014is equivalent to your mood. Climate\u2014or average conditions over a longer time period\u2014is your personality. Here in North Carolina, we know our climate is marked by mild winters and hot summers, with no distinct wet season. We can see days swing from 74\u00b0F on one day to 45\u00b0F the next.<\/p>\n

However, that analogy about moods and personalities is somewhat imperfect in a rapidly changing world. With climate change, we’re supercharging our atmosphere, like a baseball player on steroids. And even small shifts in our overall climate lead to huge changes in our extremes. As our personality shifts slightly, we see more of those bad mood days\u2014and those moods can be worse than what we’re used to.
\nWe’ve seen some of those personality shifts in the past couple years.
\n2019 was officially North Carolina’s warmest year in recorded history, per our neighbors in Asheville at NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI). We are seeing more daily maximum temperature records than minimum temperature records, while our nights have been warming significantly for the past few decades.
\nAnd it’s not just the temperature here in North Carolina.
\nIn 2018, North Carolina set an all-time state record for the most precipitation in a year at a single station. The official weather station at Mt. Mitchell\u2014also the highest point east of the Mississippi\u2014measured almost 12 feet of precipitation during the calendar year.
\nThe location’s 139.94″ of precipitation was declared the new official record by NCEI in early July. It broke the previous record for Mt. Mitchell by more than three feet.
\nIn other words, North Carolina is changing rapidly.
\nClimate change isn’t just a polar bear floating on a lonely piece of ice. It’s changing the conditions that are ideal for growing things like our prized sweet potatoes. It’s threatening the health of our residents, and hurting the people who suffer the most\u2014low-income communities who may not have sufficient access to cooling, or who live in flood prone areas. It’s a social<\/a> issue.
\nWe can point to the aftermath of Matthew, Florence, and Dorian. Flooding in Asheville. Longer, more intense heat waves in Raleigh. Sunny day flooding in Wilmington. Coastal erosion on the Outer Banks. We no longer get the luxury of talking about climate change as a future problem. It’s a now problem.
\nThe bad news<\/a> is that this is the new normal for only a short time. We will continue to warm. Our weather will continue to become more extreme. Those heat waves and floods from 2019 may seem insignificant in 2050.
\nNorth Carolina is among a few states that is actively preparing for a changing climate. Two recently-released reports\u2014the North Carolina Climate Science<\/a> Report and the North Carolina Risk and Resilience Plan\u2014tackle pieces of our climate problem. We are looking at a different North Carolina in the coming decades. And we’ll need a global strategy to ultimately change the trajectory that we’re on if we ever want to get back to a “normal” climate that is less extreme.
\nThis is a guest post by Kathie Dello, the state climatologist of North Carolina and the director of the North Carolina State Climate Office, which is housed at NC\u00a0State University. <\/i><\/p>\n

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