NOAA Report on Climate Predicts Extremes - More Droughts Likely in North America

[kgrandia]

As greenhouse-gas emissions rise, North America is likely to experience more droughts and excessive heat in some regions even as intense downpours and hurricanes pound others more often, according to a report issued yesterday by the U.S. Climate Change Science Program. Heres the link to the WaPo story: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/19/AR2008061902171.html

Here's the link to the report: http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2008/20080619_climatereport.html

[whistle]

1. Like the midwest dust bowl events of the 1930s

[kestrel91316]

2. How about this for an official forecast:

It ain't gonna rain no moah, no moah.....
It ain't gonna rain no moah.

[OKIsItJustMe]

3. Well around here, the forecast is more like

It never rains but it pours.

http://www.climatescience.gov/Library/scientific-assessment/Scientific-AssessmentFINAL.pdf

... In the northeastern United States, annual mean precipitation is very likely to increase. ...