When It Rains, It Increasingly Pours, Scientists Say -- No place is safe from risk of harder rains
Source: Bloomberg
As the climate heats up, the forecast is also calling for more rain. Think downpours. Cats and dogs. Or just “extreme rain,” as the scientists call it.
The overall rain and snowfall average is increasing only moderately. But observations since 1951 show that the wettest days every year have increased their intensity by 1 percent to 2 percent per decade, according to a study published this week in the journal Nature Climate Change. The heavy precipitation is increasing over both wet and dry land areas, a surprising conclusion drawn from the research.
A mantra among climate scientists for years has held that, as humanity continues to pump out carbon pollution, regions with lots of rainfall will receive more, and relatively arid places will get even less. That’s a global projection, however, and most of the globe's surface consists of ocean. More recently, scientists have wondered if that will hold true over land as well.
The Australian and U.S. scientists who conducted the new study conclude that it may not hold true. The skies are dumping more and more water on land, regardless of traditional, local climatic conditions.
Read more: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-03-08/when-it-rains-it-increasingly-pours-scientists-say
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Highland Ave., and Ash Street on either side. Ash Street is effectively Hash Street due to the constant vandalism of the street sign.
It was a fun street to hang out on. 
I wouldn't say Hash St. was all that hip. I spent a lot of time there with other derelicts from my HS, and we were the outcasts in 1972. There were the Jocks, the Nerds, and the stoners. I was a jock and a stoner. which made it interesting. Turns out I ended up a computer nerd. Go figure! 
I guess that would be called a "home run"!! 
I believe that we are entering a LONG period of unpredictable weather patterns. Every year will bring more bizarre weather, so the final realization of the impact of the industrial era, will continue to be enhanced every year.
As long as the average temperature of the planet continues towards 6F, we should experience the good in life before we end up regretting that we didn't do so. 
We are suffering through an epic drought. It was supposed to be somewhat relieved by a "Godzilla El Niño" that was building up since summer 2015 (warming of the ocean). People were posting maps showing a great expanse of warming water, with warnings that Southern California was going to experience rainfall it has never seen before.
The arrival was first said to be in October 2015; then it was pushed to December; then January was certainly going to be when this Gozilla El Niño would arrive—and that it was just running late; then, So. Cal is not out of the woods yet, February and March stand to be very wet; now we're heading into mid March, and the talk (aside from newscasters calling every 2-hours of rain El Niño) has changed to the Godzilla of El Niños as being over; and that a La Niña is setting up (cooler than average ocean temperatures).
I'm not blaming the messengers and it's probably a good thing we didn't get walloped like was predicted (mud slides, etc), but I'm frustrated because I was hoping El Niño would elevate some of our drought...plus, I love the rain. 
I think it's finally time for me to move up north.