Atmospheric river storms are getting stronger, and deadlier

theguardian.com

52 points·Brajeshwar··21 comments

That's exactly what climate change predicts.

You inject more energy into a system and the system gets more energetic.

More energy in the atmosphere, more extreme weather.

That’s exactly true unfortunately we have people ignorant to those facts and claim “oh, all this rain and cold weather…so much for global warming” Ignorance…

And more frequent, it seems.

One every few years has become (at least in the past several years) multiples per year, or month, particularly along the west coast of North America, from Mexico to Canada.

This is why I worship the stormlord.

Life before death brother.

You may be thinking of the Stormfather?

Journey before destination, Radiant.

Why/When did they stop referring to this as {a|the} 'Jet Stream'?

Because it’s not the same thing? One is a thin band of moisture pulled up from the tropics and the other is a high altitude fast flowing air current. Sometimes atmospheric rivers are also called a “pineapple express.” That was more common 20-30 years ago than today.

Pineapple Express is still used and California was just hit by one. It’s a specific atmospheric river that extends from Northeast of Hawai’i to the Pacific Coast and sometimes further inland as far as Colorado. Not all atmospheric rivers are a Pineapple Express though.

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