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How many deaths will be prevented because of milder winters?
by missedthecue 5y ago
How many deaths will be prevented because of milder winters?
- scrollaway 5y agoHello from a country currently not dealing with the heat wave and having mild climate instead. We got floods. Worst ones in our country's history. Millions of euros in damages. Hundreds of deaths. It's a small country so this is a lot. Don't be daft please.
- sollewitt 5y agoWarmer doesn't imply milder. "Everything is hotter" = "there is more energy in the system", which is evident from the uptick in both the number of powerful storms and their intensity. Warmer air can hold more moisture which is leading to heavier downpours and bringing floods. Perturbation of atmospheric and oceanic streams is leading to strange pressure systems maintaining much colder weather for days in some places in unpredictable ways as we've seen on the east coast of the US the last few winters.