Flood-hit Auckland braces for 2nd atmospheric river after record rains in New Zealand's largest city
Climate change is adding even more moisture to atmospheric rivers, enabling them to dump higher rain and snow totals, pervia Freedman: This extreme precipitation event is consistent with how climate change is altering weather worldwide.
Heavy rainfall events are already becoming more common and intense across the U.S. and in other countries since the atmosphere holds about 7% more water vapor per 1 degree Celsius of warming.More heavy rain and possible thunderstorms forecast for northern New Zealand in the next few days could potentially aggravate the flooding.severe weather warnings and watches for the Northland region for 24 hours from early Tuesday and Auckland for 12 hours from 6pm that night.
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