How Serious is the ARk Storm (Catastrophic Flooding) Threat Along the West Coast?

Wed, 31 Aug 2022 04:58:00 UTC

: Cliff Mass Weather Blog This blog discusses current weather , weather prediction , climate issues , and current events August 31, 2022 How serious is the ARk Storm Catastrophic Flooding Threat Along the West Coast The media was abuzz last week with stories about a greatly increased threat of a massive flooding event along the West Coast , termed an ARk Storm . nbsp The immediate stimulus of this apocalyptic vision was a r ecent paper by Xingying Huang and Daniel Swain in the journal Science Advances This article suggests that global warming has already substantially increased the probability of West Coast catastrophic flooding events and that the potential for such flooding will be profoundly enhanced by the end of the . century In this blog , I will describe some serious problems with