Daniel Swain in Washington Post: Extraordinary, record-crushing rainstorm deluges Honolulu
UCLA climate scientist, Daniel Swain, in the Washington Post about storms in Honolulu. The cold front associated with the unusual low-pressure zone triggered thunderstorms and heavy rain. The rainfall was…
UCLA climate scientist, Daniel Swain, in the Washington Post about storms in Honolulu.
The cold front associated with the unusual low-pressure zone triggered thunderstorms and heavy rain. The rainfall was probably increased by warmer-than-normal ocean temperatures surrounding the islands, which were also a contributor to the recent record-warm air temperatures. The warm ocean “raises the ceiling on precipitation intensity,” tweeted Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at the University of California at Los Angeles.
